Police have recaptured the man who escaped from the Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Pictou County. All Nova Scotia police forces had been notified about the situation, he said. In a news release, the department said Clarke-McNeil had been in custody at the provincial facility since December 2019. According to the Nova Scotia Justice Department, Clarke-McNeil is originally from Ontario and was on remand at the Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility on several charges, including attempted murder, unlawful confinement, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and resisting/obstructing a peace officer. Clarke-McNeil is one of the 15 people charged in connection to a beating last December at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in the Burnside Industrial Park in Dartmouth.

Source: CBC News June 06, 2020 01:50 UTC