Lance Battreal (left) and Mark Booher (right)
New search for escaped prison inmate
Suspected sighting of escapee
Updated: Thursday, 16 Jul 2009, 4:33 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 16 Jul 2009, 4:33 PM EDT
Michigan City, Ind. (AP) - Authorities are searching a heavily wooded area near a train
yard for an inmate who escaped Sunday from the Indiana State Prison
along with two other inmates.
Thursday's search began after two Northern Indiana Commuter
Transportation District workers saw a disheveled man walk out of
and then quickly run back into the wooded area near a South Shore
train maintenance yard.
More than seven hours later, Indiana State Police and other agencies remain on the scene in Michigan City searching for the man, believed to be 45-year-old Lance Battreal.
The convicted rapist escaped Sunday from the prison along with 46-year-old Mark Booher and 49-year-old Charles Smith, both of whom are convicted murderers.
Smith was captured Monday near Grand Beach, Mich. Booher and Battreal remain at large.
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