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Escaped Inmate Captured
By HILDA MUÑOZ | Courant Staff Writer
7:59 AM EDT, July 22, 2008
CHESHIRE - An inmate at Webster Correctional Institution hopped a fence while on work detail Monday afternoon and met a woman who was waiting on the other side with a car parked nearby, state police said.
Robert Shepard's taste of freedom didn't last long. State police, tipped off by a citizen who witnessed the prison break, captured the inmate and arrested his accomplice, Theresia Ohara.
Shepard, who was serving a 4-year prison sentence for an assault conviction, was charged with escape from a correctional institution. He was transferred to Northern Correctional in Somers.
Ohara, 31, of Stafford Springs, was charged with interfering with police. She is scheduled to appear today in Superior Court in Meriden.
State police say Shepard was on work detail across the street from the prison around 12:21 p.m.. The witness saw Shepard climb the fence and meet Ohara on the outside, state police said. The pair was found at a local park on Route 10, state police said.
