NEWBERRY, MI-- A prisoner from the Newberry Correctional Facility has been recaptured after a brief, early-morning escape.
Officials with the Michigan Department of Corrections say Alize Montague, 19, was seen climbing over the facility’s fence just after 2 a.m. Tuesday. He was pursued by officers who saw him cross M-123 on foot. Michigan State Police and the DOC’s Emergency Response Team assisted in the search, along with local law enforcement.
Montague was found just before 4 a.m. about a mile from the prison and taken back into custody.
He was serving a five- to ten-year sentence out of Monroe County on charges of malicious destruction of personal property, resisting and obstructing an officer, and assault by strangulation or suffocation.
