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Virginia jail escapee captured after seeking medical help at a university

The VA inmate was ‘injured and in poor health’ when he surrendered to the authorities

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  • Bruce Callahan, one of two inmates who escaped a jail in Virginia last week, was found and recaptured at a local university.
  • Callahan surrendered to the police when he was seeing medical attention at the Virginia university.
  • The other Virginia inmate, Alder Marin-Sotelo, was recaptured in Mexico on Thursday.

A second inmate who escaped from a Virginia jail last week was apprehended Monday after he showed up at a local university and asked for medical assistance.

The inmate, identified by jail officials as Bruce Callahan, was detained by Longwood police after he walked into Lancer Park — a 50-acre residential community owned by Longwood University — and pulled an outdoor fire alarm, university officials said in a statement.

Callahan, who was "injured and in poor health," surrendered to police and asked for medical treatment, the officials said. School officials did not disclose the nature of his injuries. Farmville police assisted in the arrest.

2 VIRGINIA JAIL ESCAPEES GO UNNOTICED FOR 26 HOURS AFTER FLEEING

Alder Marin-Sotelo and Bruce Callahan

Alder Marin-Sotelo, 26, and Bruce Callahan, 44, both escaped on April 30 from the Piedmont Regional Jail in Virginia. Bruce Callahan was found and captured at a local university Monday. (FBI/Virginia State Police)

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Callahan and another inmate escaped from the Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville on April 30. The other inmate, 26-year-old Alder Marin-Sotelo, was captured in Mexico on Thursday. Marin-Sotelo is charged in the 2022 killing of a North Carolina sheriff's deputy. Callahan was being held on federal drug and weapons charges.

Both Marin-Sotelo and Callahan were federal detainees with no affiliations to the area, the sheriff’s office said.