For five years he outwitted the police: they catch a violent prisoner who escaped from a New Jersey jail

Oderi Caldwell outwitted the police for five years since he escaped from a prison in New Jersey in 2019 until he was now finally caught in another state in the country, Ohio.

Caldwell escaped from prison on April 12, 2019 while serving a sentence for an unspecified violent crime and just this week he was arrested in Mason, Ohio, on Wednesday the 27th. He was detained in the Warren County Jail awaiting extradition. to New Jersey.

All this time, New Jersey authorities considered Caldwell one of the most wanted fugitives in that state and referred the case to the US Marshals, he noted. NBC News.

“The combination of resources and the exchange of information led to the safe arrest of this violent fugitive.”

“The United States Marshals Service is committed to making our community safer by locating violent criminals and those escaping incarceration. In this case, the New York and New Jersey Task Force coordinated this arrest with our team here in southern Ohio and our task force partners at the Mason Police Department and the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. The combination of our resources and the exchange of information led to the safe arrest of this violent fugitive,” said U.S. Marshal Michael D. Black.

In a similar case, in October a 36-year-old man with a record of 54 arrests escaped from police custody at Mt. Sinai West Hospital in Midtown Manhattan (NYC).

In September, after spending more than a month on the run, Yenchun Chen, who received the nickname “Spider Man” after his almost filmic escape through the window of a hospital in Manhattan, was caught.

At the end of July, a woman escaped security at a federal police station in Queens by fleeing through a window. A month earlier, Anthony Ayala, a 16-year-old teenager who was detained at an NYPD precinct on Staten Island, apparently disappeared by fleeing through a bathroom window.

In August 2022, Eduardo Lacen (23), a young suspect in attempted murder, escaped from an NYPD station in the Bronx after pushing a detective, NYPD sources said at the time.