BRANTLEY, Ala. (AP) - An escaped Alabama inmate was captured Tuesday after more than a week on the lam.
Dustin Joel Morton, 34, was arrested Tuesday in the south Alabama town of Brantley, according to a release from the Department of Corrections. He escaped from the Elba Work Release Center about 20 miles away on Feb. 17.
Morton was serving a 15-year sentence for obstructing justice and using a false identity in Marshall County. He was sentenced in September 2017.
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The corrections department said Crenshaw County sheriff’s deputies and state prison officers captured Morton without violence.
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