By Don Jacobs
The News Sentinel
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — State and local authorities on Wednesday morning captured in a Knoxville home a 23-year-old prison escapee who had fled on Christmas Eve.
“He was hiding in a closet,” said state Department of Correction spokeswoman Dorinda Carter.
Carter said Robert Grant was captured shortly before 9 a.m. at a Knoxville residence. Grant “tried to resist once the handcuffs were placed on him,” but otherwise the arrest was uneventful, she said.
Carter declined to specify the residence where Grant was because the occupants cooperated with authorities and have children in the home.
The residents also gave authorities consent to search for Grant in the house.
Grant faces a charge of escape from the Morgan County Correctional Complex- Annex. Carter said Grant scaled a fence at the prison just before midnight Dec. 24.
Carter said no other arrests were made in connection with Grant’s monthlong acquaintance with freedom. Officers with the DOC Internal Affairs Unit, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation were involved in capturing Grant.
Grant was serving a sixyear sentence on drug and weapons convictions when he escaped. He had been sentenced in a Knox County court.
His sentence was set to expire in 2014, Carter said.
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