The Nation : Escapee Captured in N.M.

Law enforcement authorities in New Mexico recaptured a prison inmate who was making a getaway on a truckload of construction material as a five-day search for five other escapees spread across mountains and deserts. Robert Earl Davis, a former Albuquerque police officer and one of seven men who escaped from the maximum-security wing at the Penitentiary of New Mexico, was found hiding on top of a tractor-trailer rig. The driver of a truck trailing the one carrying Davis saw the escapee on the vehicle and signaled a passing state police officer. Authorities took Davis into custody near Belen, 85 miles south of Santa Fe.