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September 24, 2009 07:09 AM

galvestoninmate(hp).jpg — In a daring escape, inmate Joshua Duane Barnes gouged a hole through a wall big enough to crawl through, broke a window, tied 40 feet of bedsheets together and descended from the seventh-story window of a prison hospital in all of 15 minutes. (TDCJ photo)

By Megan Moore
NewsChannel 10

Irving, Texas — A fugitive from Amarillo is on his way to a higher security prison in Hunstville after his capture Wednesday.

21 year old Joshua Duane Barnes surrendered to police today after hiding out in an abandoned house in Irving.

A spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says Barnes faces a new batch of charges after his Saturday prison break in Galveston. She says he could be charged with felony escape, auto theft, and robbery.

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