RCMP has arrested the inmate who escape from the Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility last evening.
Kevin Edward Clarke-McNeil escaped the Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Pictou County last evening and was arrested this morning at approximately 9:45 a.m. east of Sheet Harbour in Halifax Regional Municipality.
At 8:27 a.m. this morning Guysborough RCMP received a report of a suspicious fire shortly followed by further reports of an ATV on a roadway and a stolen ATV all within Guysborough County. Through a coordinated effort with RCMP in Halifax District and a short pursuit by police, Clarke-McNeil was apprehended on the MacDonald Cove Road.
Minor non-life threatening injuries were incurred by Clarke-McNeil in this incident.
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File # 2020-731217