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Authorities identify escaped inmates captured in Vancouver

By , Columbian Breaking News Reporter
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Authorities have released the names of two Larch Corrections Center inmates who escaped Thursday in Vancouver and were quickly recaptured.

Adam Michael Stratton, 34, and Jason Abrahamson, 31, were clearing brush and trimming bushes with a work crew on the south side of state Highway 500 near 42nd Avenue when the crew supervisor noticed them missing at about 1 p.m., according to the Washington Department of Corrections.

“He found the weed-wackers, vests and gloves, and he got right on it,” said Larch Corrections Center spokeswoman Danette Gadberry.

The supervisor immediately notified dispatchers and from there, Gadberry said, it “just went like clockwork.”

The Clark County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington State Patrol initiated a search. Within 90 minutes, deputies had located the two men, still wearing their prison-issued clothing, near the Vancouver mall transit center. They were waiting for a bus.

“We have a big thank you out there for the Clark County Sheriff’s Office,” Gadberry said.

Both men were scheduled to be released in November 2015.

Stratton is serving time for residential burglary, auto theft and three counts of trafficking stolen property in Snohomish County. Abrahamson is incarcerated for five counts of identity theft and seven counts of forgery out of Pierce County.

Both are now subject to administrative sanction and could lose accumulated good time on top of any new criminal charges — which could result in more time.

Because Larch is a minimum-security prison that houses offenders with less than four years left on their sentence, both men will now be transferred to the prison in Shelton.

Additionally, officials at Larch will conduct their own internal investigation.

The last time a Larch inmate escaped from a work crew was in September 2009, Gadberry said.

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