Rock Hill prison escapee caught after leaving work release site

An escaped inmate who walked away from work release last week and eluded authorities despite a manhunt is in custody, South Carolina prison officials said.

Bobby Albert Camp III, 25, has been apprehended, said Stephanie Givens, a spokesperson for the S.C. Department of Corrections. Camp is in the Greenville County jail but details of Camp’s capture are not yet available.

Camp walked away July 7 and had not been seen since. Police in both Carolinas were searching for him, and a SWAT situation July 9 at a Rock Hill home after officials thought Camp might be there turned up nothing.

Camp is serving a seven-year sentence for robbery. It is his second prison stretch for robbery after serving time while a teen.

Camp was working at Rock Hill’s B & B Tire when he escaped. He was not the only inmate to walk away last week.

Richard Keith Poe, 47, also walked away from work release last week but was caught later the same day in Charlotte.

Both Camp and Poe were assigned to the Catawba Pre-Release Center in York County, where 58 inmates work in community jobs outside the prison. Camp and Poe are the only two inmates to flee jobs from the program this year, officials said.

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This story was originally published July 16, 2015 at 8:29 AM with the headline "Rock Hill prison escapee caught after leaving work release site."