Fugitive caught over two years later in Texas

Turning to the courts, he was on the run for two years after his daring escape from the cops. Thirty-four year old Dennis Quilter became a fugitive on April sixteenth 2007 and was living it up in the United States. But over two years later Quilter’s new life came crashing down around him when he could not produce a driver’s license to F.B.I. and Immigration personnel in Texas. He was deported and handed over to C.I.B. at the Phillip Goldson International Airport at around two-thirty on Monday. Quilter appeared in court today under heavy police escort and was charged with one count of Escaping from Lawful Custody, to which he pleaded guilty. He told Magistrate Sharon Frazer that he took off because someone put a hit on him and while he was at the prison his cell mate beat him to an almost unconscious state. Quilter says he reported the incident to the then C.E.O. at the prison, Marlon Skeen, who allegedly said he simply didn’t care. Magistrate Frazer sentenced him to five years for the escape. Quilter, however, was already facing twelve years for Burglary and Attempted Burglary, for which he was tried in absencia and only learned of that sentence in court today. After considering his reasons for escaping, Magistrate Frazer stipulated that the new sentence run concurrently with the previous one. When Quilter escaped in 2007, he was among a group of prisoners being escorted to jail in a prison van and then the vehicle slowed at a speed bump, he and three others jumped out and took off. The other three were detained soon after, but Quilter managed to stay free until this past weekend when he was stopped at a checkpoint in Texas. When he didn’t have a driver’s license his legal status came into question and checks into his background revealed that he was wanted in Belize for escaping from prison.