A West Virginia inmate who escaped in May is back in custody following his capture in Virginia.
The Beckley Correctional Center told media outlets that 40-year-old Chad Edward Cook was captured in Roanoke on Sunday.
Roanoke police spokesman Scott Leamon told the Register-Herald that an officer stopped Cook at around 2:52 a.m. after he saw him riding a bicycle without tail light reflectors on a sidewalk.
Cook gave the arresting officer the wrong identificarion "several times," Leamon told the Register-Herald.
Leamon said the officer discovered that Cook was a fugitive from West Virginia after taking his fingerprints.
Cook had escaped back in May after he left his work release job at a library and never signed back into the correctional center, said Lawrence Messina, a spokesperson for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety.
"It's our desire he'll be returned here to serve the remainder of his sentence," Messina told the Register-Herald.
Cook was serving a sentence for fraud, forgery and false pretenses in Harrison and Upshur counties. Leamon said Cook has been charged in Virginia with falsifying a public document and a traffic violation.
