Alabama Inmate Recaptured in Brantley After Week-long Search

An escaped Alabama inmate has been captured after more than a week on the lam.

The Department of Corrections says 34-year-old Dustin Joel Morton was arrested Tuesday in the town of Brantley. He escaped from the Elba Work Release Center about 20 miles away on February 17.

Morton was serving a 15-year sentence for obstructing justice and using a false identity in Marshall County. He was sentenced in September 2017.

Corrections officials say Crenshaw County sheriff’s deputies and state prison officers captured Morton without violence.

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