An escaped prisoner is back in custody after he was caught hiding in a farmer's field near Nanaimo Correctional Centre.
Ronald Sweezey, 53, wandered off from a work detail with a roadside maintenance crew on Biggs Road Friday morning, sparking a search and a plea by the RCMP to the public to help find him after a search failed to turn him up.
Sweezey was found by a corrections officer working at Nanaimo Correctional Centre Friday night at about 8:40 p.m. Sweezey was hiding in what police describe as an agricultural area on a property adjacent to the correctional centre.
Sweezey was in police custody over the weekend awaiting an appearance before a provincial court judge.