On April 5, 2006, Richard Lee McNair smuggled himself out of prison in a pile of mailbags. A Ball, La., police officer spotted him running across train tracks that day. McNair, wearing a tank top and shorts, could be seen in an online video telling the officer that he was out on a run. The officer told him a man had escaped from prison.
He called on his radio to get a description of the escapee. Laughing, the officer said: "You know the bad thing about it, you're matching up to him." "Well, that sucks doesn't it," McNair replied. A few minutes later, the officer explained why he stopped McNair: "When I crossed the tracks down there, I saw you running. I said, `Well, how lucky can I be.'"
"No, nope, nope, nope," McNair said. "I'm not no prison escapee."
The officer decided McNair was not his man, then offered him some advice: "If you do jog again in the future, carry some ID with you." They exchanged a laugh, and McNair took off running. "Be careful buddy," the officer said.
Somehow, McNair got all the way to Canada. On Thursday, police captured him about 100 miles north of the border in Campbellton, New Brunswick. He had been driving a stolen van, Erck said.
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