RIO GRANDE — Middle Township police, acting on a phone tip, apprehended a state prison escapee Tuesday, Feb. 24 about 11:50 a.m. near a Route 47 bus stop.
Middle Township police received a call from Lower Township Police dispatch, advising that they had received an anonymous tip that David McGill, an escapee from South Woods State Prison/Kintock Halfway House, Bridgton was in Rio Grande.
Corporal Mike Elias and Patrolmen Mike Harron, Jason Sill, and Jason Sweitzer immediately responded to the scene.
Harron, the first officer on-scene, spotted McGill attempting to get on a New Jersey Transit bus headed to Wildwood. At that time, McGill spotted Harron, exited the bus, and took off running, police said.
Harron, along with volunteer fireman Chris Belles, from the Rio Grande Fire Company, captured McGill, by the Off-Shore Motel. Also found in his possession at the time of arrest, was a seven-inch fixed blade hunting knife. McGill was processed on the new fourth-degree weapons charge, and returned to the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
McGill, 41, was serving time for unlawful weapons possession. He was reported out of custody on Wednesday, Feb. 11 from the halfway house by South Woods State Prison.
McGill began serving his term Jan. 25, 2008, according to prison records.McGill was serving 18 months + 365 days for the conviction of a previous weapons possession offense and Hindering Apprehension.
