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Arcade Comeaux Jr. was being transferred from a prison in Huntsville, Texas to another one in Stiles last week when he pulled out a weapon and demanded that the two correctional officers drive to Baytown, Texas. He did fire the weapon, but no one was harmed. He then cuffed the two guards together in the back of the van, took one of their uniforms, both of their weapons and ran away. Surprising thing is, Arcade Comeaux Jr. was suppose to be wheel-chair bound, but evidently not. At the time of his escape he was serving time for aggravated sexual assault and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. This amounted to being three life sentences. Now, however, he will face more. Not that it will change much though.
In my opinion this man is a psycho. His past consists of raping a child, aggravated rape of a child, burglary of a building with the intent to commit theft, indecency with a child, mulitiple parol violations, and while he was in prison the attempted stabbing of his wife and another visitor. And now, he runs off, but gets caught. Yet antoher thing he has that he can add to his on-going list of violations. It was the first time in several years that a criminal has been able to slip such a distinct weapon past the prison security and into the transfer vehicle with themselves, and it was lucky that no one got hurt. I think the prison security got a wakeup call and is probably a little bit more conscientious about checking for weapons now. I think checking for weapons and prisoners having weapons probably hasn't been a huge concern lately and not very common that prisoners have had them lately. But, now I think that prison in particular will be more conscientious of what is happening in their prison. I think since Arcade Comeaux Jr. already had the equivalent of three life sentences going into this ordeal, that he probably thought he didn't have anything to lose. So I think our justice system needs to better set itself up for people like Arcade Comeaux Jr. who really don't have anything to lose.
Arcade Comeaux Jr. was being transferred from a prison in Huntsville, Texas to another one in Stiles last week when he pulled out a weapon and demanded that the two correctional officers drive to Baytown, Texas. He did fire the weapon, but no one was harmed. He then cuffed the two guards together in the back of the van, took one of their uniforms, both of their weapons and ran away. Surprising thing is, Arcade Comeaux Jr. was suppose to be wheel-chair bound, but evidently not. At the time of his escape he was serving time for aggravated sexual assault and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. This amounted to being three life sentences. Now, however, he will face more. Not that it will change much though.
In my opinion this man is a psycho. His past consists of raping a child, aggravated rape of a child, burglary of a building with the intent to commit theft, indecency with a child, mulitiple parol violations, and while he was in prison the attempted stabbing of his wife and another visitor. And now, he runs off, but gets caught. Yet antoher thing he has that he can add to his on-going list of violations. It was the first time in several years that a criminal has been able to slip such a distinct weapon past the prison security and into the transfer vehicle with themselves, and it was lucky that no one got hurt. I think the prison security got a wakeup call and is probably a little bit more conscientious about checking for weapons now. I think checking for weapons and prisoners having weapons probably hasn't been a huge concern lately and not very common that prisoners have had them lately. But, now I think that prison in particular will be more conscientious of what is happening in their prison. I think since Arcade Comeaux Jr. already had the equivalent of three life sentences going into this ordeal, that he probably thought he didn't have anything to lose. So I think our justice system needs to better set itself up for people like Arcade Comeaux Jr. who really don't have anything to lose.
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