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Two Georgia men on the run after prison break http://www.privateofficer.com
Atlanta Ga. Oct 15 2008
BY: Rick McCann
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Authorities in Georgia and surrounding states are still on the look-out for two men they say broke out of the Hays State Prison in Chattooga County, in the northwest part of Georgia.
State authorities have identified the men as Johnny Mack Brown, 52, and Michael Anthony Tweedel, 48.
The Georgia State Patrol and several other law enforcement agencies are assisting prison authorities in searching for the men, mostly in northeastern Chattooga County, officials said.
According to authorities, the men escaped at about 10:30 a.m. Monday from the maximum security prison in Trion, but authorities would not say how. The facility houses inmates with behavioral problems.
Brown, from the Elberton area of Georgia was found guilty in the shooting death of a Loomis Fargo armored car guard during Dec. 22, 1997 armed robbery at the former Wal-Mart in the Perimeter Square shopping center off Atlanta Highway.
He stole $183,000 in cash and checks and got away in a hijacked car.
Clarke County jury convicted Brown of armed robbery, aggravated assault with intent to murder, aggravated battery, theft by taking, hijacking a motor vehicle, and aggravated assault for shooting at an off-duty police instructor during the robbery.
Authorities also say that Tweedel is serving a ten year sentence for an armed robbery in Cobb County but did not release further information about his crime.
State correction authorities said this was not the first time that Brown has managed to escape. He also was able to escape from the Clarke County Jail in September 1998, by lifting the bottom of a recreation gate and scaling a wall.
Authorities arrested Brown in Daytona Beach, Fla., when they found him asleep in a vehicle that he stole from a car dealership.
While on the run for almost three weeks, police say that Brown stole several cars including one from a man that he beat in South Carolina and another from a car dealership in North Carolina.
Clarke County Superior Court Judge Steve Jones sentenced Brown to life plus 90 years in prison.
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Authorities in Georgia and surrounding states are still on the look-out for two men they say broke out of the Hays State Prison in Chattooga County, in the northwest part of Georgia.
State authorities have identified the men as Johnny Mack Brown, 52, and Michael Anthony Tweedel, 48.
The Georgia State Patrol and several other law enforcement agencies are assisting prison authorities in searching for the men, mostly in northeastern Chattooga County, officials said.
According to authorities, the men escaped at about 10:30 a.m. Monday from the maximum security prison in Trion, but authorities would not say how. The facility houses inmates with behavioral problems.
Brown, from the Elberton area of Georgia was found guilty in the shooting death of a Loomis Fargo armored car guard during Dec. 22, 1997 armed robbery at the former Wal-Mart in the Perimeter Square shopping center off Atlanta Highway.
He stole $183,000 in cash and checks and got away in a hijacked car.
Clarke County jury convicted Brown of armed robbery, aggravated assault with intent to murder, aggravated battery, theft by taking, hijacking a motor vehicle, and aggravated assault for shooting at an off-duty police instructor during the robbery.
Authorities also say that Tweedel is serving a ten year sentence for an armed robbery in Cobb County but did not release further information about his crime.
State correction authorities said this was not the first time that Brown has managed to escape. He also was able to escape from the Clarke County Jail in September 1998, by lifting the bottom of a recreation gate and scaling a wall.
Authorities arrested Brown in Daytona Beach, Fla., when they found him asleep in a vehicle that he stole from a car dealership.
While on the run for almost three weeks, police say that Brown stole several cars including one from a man that he beat in South Carolina and another from a car dealership in North Carolina.
Clarke County Superior Court Judge Steve Jones sentenced Brown to life plus 90 years in prison.
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