A prisoner, who was feared dead after escaping from Carrera Island Prison, was recaptured in Princes Town yesterday after five months on the run. Escapee Andy Downy, 42, of Gasparillo, was held shortly after 11 am in the front seat of a white AD wagon proceeding along Railway Road.
A party of officers, among them Sgt Don Gajadhar, Cpl Ribero, Cpl Teeluck, PCs Bacchus and Dookie, who were on inquiries, got suspicious when the passenger pulled down his cap over his face when he saw them. The officers stopped the car and recognised Downy as the prisoner who had escaped from Carrera and was feared dead.
On searching the vehicle police allegedly found a quantity of marijuana. Both Downy and the driver, of Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, were arrested and taken to the Princes Town Police Station. Investigations were continuing up to late yesterday. Downy, who had been serving a seven-year sentence for housebreaking and larceny, along with another prisoner Trevor Hospedales, 37, of Fyzabad, had escaped on July 5.