Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, November 28, 1994 TAG: 9411280085
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Medium
Henrico County police arrested George E. Cozino, 21; Wayne G. Weis, 20, and Charles W. Mongold, 23, without incident about 8:30 p.m. Sunday in suburban Richmond, Sgt. James I. Medlin said.
He said county police received an anonymous tip on a Crimestoppers line that the three men were driving a green Ford pickup around the county. He said officers stopped the truck after following it for about five minutes.
``We were just lucky,'' Medlin said. He said the men looked tired. They were not armed, he said.
The two other inmates, Wayne C. Anderson, 21, and Phillip W. Hayes, 19, were arrested earlier by Richmond police.
Anderson, of Winchester, was arrested Saturday night but gave a false name and was not identified until a fingerprint check Sunday morning, Richmond police Lt. Arthur Carroll said.
Hayes was arrested early Sunday near his parents' house in the city, Carroll said.
Corrections department spokesman Jim Jones said earlier Sunday that Anderson and Hayes would be transferred to maximum-security prisons, possibly the Powhatan or Buckingham correctional centers, after being interviewed by authorities about the escape.
Cozino, Weis and Mongold were being held late Sunday at the Henrico County Public Safety Building, Medlin said.
The five inmates escaped about 12:45 a.m. Friday from Harrisonburg Correctional Unit No. 8. They beat up two guards. One guard was treated at Rockingham Memorial Hospital and released. A patient coordinator said the other was discharged Sunday.
by CNB