November 12, 2012 - Brandon Musto, 37, who escaped this past
Wednesday from Monroe prison's minimum security ward in Washington was found
and arrested Sunday night in a wooded area near North Bend by a King County
Sheriff's Office SWAT team and a police dog, according to the Sky Valley
Chronicle.
A hiker on Rattlesnake Ridge Sunday afternoon encountered a
man who looked out of place and asked the hiker to borrow his cell phone to
call his mother.The hiker with the cell phone felt something about the
encounter didn’t quite seem right so when he got home he did some online
research and came to the conclusion he had spoken with the escaped prison
inmate Musto.
The man who used the cell phone had left behind his mother’s
phone number. The sheriff’s office verified that the number belonged to Musto’s
mother and then sent out the SWAT team and the police dog to search. The
escaped inmate at first tried to run and hide, according to authorities but he
was eventually caught by the police dog.
Musto had only a few months left to serve on his sentence
before he escaped. Now he may be facing a new charge and more prison time. He
began serving his prison sentence in September 2011 after he was convicted of
vehicular assault.
