THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, November 28, 1994 TAG: 9411280064
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short : 48 lines
Police have arrested all five men who escaped from a medium-security prison near Harrisonburg, authorities said Sunday.
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.
They were caught in a routine stop Saturday night for driving a car with expired license plates. Anderson, the driver, fled and was caught within minutes; Hayes was found later.
Anderson, of Winchester, 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 morning 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 after being interviewed by authorities about the escape.
Cozino, Weis and Mongold were being held late Sunday night at the Henrico County Public Safety Building, Medlin said.
The five inmates escaped about 12:45 a.m. Friday from the prison near Linville, about five miles north of Harrisonburg. They locked up two guards and beat up two others.
One guard, Brad Swecker, was treated at Rockingham Memorial Hospital and released. A patient coordinator at the hospital said the other, Gary Herron, was discharged Sunday, a day after undergoing facial surgery.
Herron suffered a broken nose, fractures to bones under his eye and a fractured rib, Jones said.
KEYWORDS: PRISON ESCAPE ESCAPED PRISONER by CNB