Kevin Clarke-McNeil was caught by police in Nova Scotia Saturday morning, after escaping from a provincial jail Friday night. RCMP say he stole an ATV in Guysborough County before he was caught in Sheet Harbour.
Police have recaptured the man who escaped from the Northeast Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Pictou County.
Kevin Edward Clarke-McNeil, 33, escaped between 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Friday.
He evaded police overnight, but was arrested Saturday morning on a stolen ATV in Guysborough County, said RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Andrew Joyce.
Guysborough RCMP received a report of a suspicious campfire in a “remote” location just before 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Joyce said. A call came in a short time later about someone driving an ATV on a road near the fire.
A report of a stolen ATV in Guysborough County was also received, Joyce said.
He said the combination of all of those things, plus general information that Clarke-McNeil could be in Guysborough County, gave the RCMP “a good inkling” that he was the one involved in these incidents.
Joyce said police “closed the gap” on Clarke-McNeil by working alongside Halifax RCMP. After a short pursuit, he was arrested on the MacDonald Cove Road east of Sheet Harbour at about 9:45 a.m.
The area is about about 100 kilometres south of the jail.
The ATV went off the roadway at one p