By Mark E. Vogler
A Lawrence man was one of two prison inmates captured yesterday about an hour after they tried to flee from a minimum-security work program in Concord, N.H.
The escape by Julio DeJesus of Lawrence and Bruce True, 23, of Enfield, N.H., was brief after a witness spotted them in a nearby cemetery and called police, according to Jeff Lyons, a New Hampshire Department of Corrections spokesman.
They had fled from the Transitional Work Center, he said.
Shortly after 2:30 p.m., Concord and state police responded to a report of two suspicious men getting into a maroon minivan on Sewalls Falls Road in Concord.
"When state police stopped the van, the two offenders exited the vehicle and ran off," Lyons said.
"They were apprehended by the Concord police and the state police a short time later. Both were returned to the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord," he said.
Police also arrested two women in connection with the incident. Police did not release their names last night.
DeJesus was serving a three- to six-year prison sentence from Coos County for the sale, possession and manufacturing of heroin.
DeJesus would have been eligible for parole on May 10, 2010. But he now faces additional prison time. Escape is a Class B felony punishable by up to three and a half to seven year in prison.
Police said the investigation is continuing.
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