UPDATE: 10/18/2016 9 p.m.
Escaped inmate Dennis Carver #0478723 was captured at about 8:20 this evening in Kings Mountain. He had escaped early this afternoon from Gaston Correctional Center, a minimum-security prison in Dallas.
Carter was serving a 5-year sentence for vehicle theft. He will be charged with felony escape from prison. His daughter, Tonya Carver, is also being charged, with aiding in his escape.
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Search underway for escaped inmate
Corrections and law enforcement officers are searching for inmate Dennis Carver #0478723, a minimum-security inmate.assigned to Gaston Correctional Center. Carver left this afternoon while performing maintenance duties outside the prison's perimeter fence.
He is serving a five-year sentence for larceny of a motor vehicle and was scheduled for release in March 2019.
Anyone with information on Carver's whereabouts is asked to call local law enforcement or Gaston Correctional Center at 704-922-3861.