UPDATE: Officials say Tony Meeks was captured late Friday afternoon in Gastonia.
Meeks was arrested around 5:40pm, and will now face escape charges. Officials say he is being removed from the minimum security prison in Dallas and placed in one of the state’s higher security facilities.
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GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — Officers are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Gaston Correctional Center in Dallas, North Carolina.
Officials say Tony Meeks, who was serving a nine-year, 11 month sentence for robbery with a dangerous weapon, escaped from the prison. There is no information on how he was able to get out of the prison.
Meeks was scheduled for release in September 2020. Investigators say he is from Gaston County. Anyone who has seen Meeks is asked to call 911.
