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Escaped inmate caught in Catawba County
6/24/2009 5:41:38 AM

An inmate who escaped from the Gaston Correctional Center on Saturday was captured Monday in Catawba County. 33 year old Michael Littlejohn escaped from the minimum security facility on Saturday by jumping over a barbed wire-topped fence. He was captured yesterday at 6 p.m. at a vacant house in Catawba. Littlejohn surrendered without incident. According to a published report, Littlejohn is currently serving a 58 year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery, assault on a government officer, and larceny in the early 1990s. The report says with good behavior, Littlejohn would have been eligible for parole in two years. That possibility is now remote following the escape.  The escape on Saturday was not his first attempt. In March 1994, he and two other inmates at the Lincoln County Jail hit a jailer in the head with a metal pipe, took the keys and tried to escape but were unsuccessful. The search for Littlejohn was conducted by the North Carolina Department of Corrections, the sheriff's departments in Lincoln and Catawba counties, police departments in Gastonia, Lincolnton and Hickory,  the SBI and U.S. Secret Service. Littlejohn was placed in the Alexander Correctional Institution where he was to be held until a court appearance.

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