3rd escaped Tennessee inmate arrested in Wilmington
The third escaped inmate from Tennessee has been arrested in Wilmington Thursday night, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
Wilmington police said on Thursday at around 9 p.m. the U.S. Marshals Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, with the assistance of the Wilmington Police Department Task Force, captured 50-year-old Johnny “Shane” Brown without incident inside of an apartment in northwest Wilmington.
Sullivan County Police Department said in a release the Tennessee license plate on the vehicle they had been searching for had been replaced with a West Virginia license plate.
Brown will be held at the New Hanover County Detention Center pending extradition.
Earlier this week, two other men who escaped with Brown died in Wilmington after a police chase, according to the Sullivan County Sheriff's Office.
Tobias Carr, 38, Timothy Sarver, 45, and Johnny Brown, 50, were involved in a robbery at a convenience store in Sneads Ferry near Camp Lejeune, the sheriff's office posted on their Twitter page.
After robbing the store in Sneads Ferry, the trio led authorities on a chase across several counties before crashing their vehicle in Brunswick County.
Carr and Sarver died sometime after the police chase, officials said. It's unclear when the two men died or how they died.
The State Bureau of Investigations has been brought in to investigate the two men's death, according to the Onslow County Sheriff's Office.
