JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 24-year-old state prisoner serving time on a conviction for burglary, grand theft and arson who disappeared from a work detail on Jacksonville's Westside has been captured by police, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
According to the Department of Corrections website, Shayne Cooper-Olin was serving his sentence at the Baker County Work Camp and had less than one year left on his sentence before escaping.
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Police said that Cooper-Olin was found around 8:30 p.m. by a Department of Corrections K-9 unit out of the Union County Correctional Facility near where he escaped.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the Florida Highway Patrol and multiple Department of Corrections K-9 teams were involved in the search and eventual capture of Cooper-Olin.
News4Jax learned he was working Wednesday at a Florida Department of Transportation site on Ellis Road. He was discovered missing when corrections officers conducted an inmate count just after 1 p.m.