Stillwater prison escapee caught in Wisconsin
A man who last week walked away from a minimum-security unit at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater has been captured in Wisconsin.
Patrick James Buswell, 40, was working in a prison grounds crew when he walked away Friday morning.
He was serving a 60-month sentence for a weapons offense. His supervised release date was scheduled for January 2018.
He was found at a rural home in the Holcombe, Wis., area, officials said Wednesday. He's in custody in the Chippewa County Jail and is expected to face new criminal charges for escape in Minnesota and possible narcotics charges in Wisconsin.
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