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James Morales,
35, escaped from the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode
Island on Saturday, prompting a manhunt that spanned both
states.
Police located him when a man matching his description robbed a
bank in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, on
Thursday morning.
After an hours-long search by police helicopters, officers found
Morales in nearby Somerville and arrested him, the Massachusetts
State Police said on Twitter.
Morales is suspected of stealing six military rifles and 10
handguns from a U.S. Army Reserve Center in Worcester, about 45
miles (70 kms) west of Boston, in 2015.
He broke into the facility through a kitchen window, federal
prosecutors said, citing surveillance video and an electronic
monitoring bracelet Morales had been ordered to wear by a court
as a condition of release on bail for a separate sexual assault
charge.
Morales had gone to the facility earlier that week to pick up
copies of his military discharge papers.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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