SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) –Two minimum-security inmates who were placed on escape status are back in custody.
Inmates Shawn Mills and Ronnie Wayne Moore were apprehended in Sioux Falls today.
The two left the Sioux Falls Community Work Center without authorization May 17.
Leaving a non-secure correctional facility without authorization constitutes second-degree escape, a Class 5 felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
(The S.D. Dept. of Corrections contributed this report/news release.)
(Story updated at 12:18 p.m., 5/18/21.)
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — Two inmates from a minimum-security Sioux Falls facility have been placed on escape status.
The Department of Corrections says Shawn Mills and Ronnie Wayne Moore left the Sioux Falls Community Work Center without authorization yesterday (Mon).
Both are 44-year-old white men. Mills is serving sentences for forgery and identity theft from Minnehaha County. Moore is serving a sentence for a sixth DWI offense from Codington County.
The men could face up to five years in prison for escaping the facility.The DOC is asking anyone who knows of their whereabouts to contact law enforcement.
