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Iowa inmate caught in Illinois, over 100 miles from state’s maximum security prison

July 5, 2015 By Radio Iowa Contributor

Justin Kestner

Justin Kestner

Illinois State Police caught the inmate who escaped overnight from Iowa’s maximum security prison in Fort Madison. The inmate was found just south of Geneseo, Illinois — more than 100 miles northeast of the prison.

Officials inside the Iowa State Penitentiary discovered 25-year-old Justin Kestner had escaped sometime early this morning, before sunrise. He was in his cell at 1:30 a.m. when officials conducted a routine inmate count, but was missing when the count was conducted at 4:30 a.m.

Department of Corrections spokesperson Fred Scaletta says inmates inside the state’s oldest prison are on “restricted movement.”

Kestner is serving a 10 year prison sentence stemming from a 2009 theft charge out of Woodbury County. He robbed a Sioux City convenience store.

(Reporting by Rob Sussman, KBUR, Burlington)

 

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