Escaped SC Inmate Captured
According to Josh Gelinas, with the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC), a minimum security inmate who walked away from his work assignment Tuesday, at Columbia Farms in Greenville, has been taken into custody. About 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, Joe Dean Bellis, 39, was spotted traveling in an automobile with two other men along White House Road, in Greenville.
Columbia, SC—According to Josh Gelinas, with the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDOC), a minimum security inmate who walked away from his work assignment Tuesday, at Columbia Farms in Greenville, has been taken into custody.
About 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, Joe Dean Bellis, 39, was spotted traveling in an automobile with two other men along White House Road, in Greenville.
The automobile was pulled over and Bellis was taken into custody by members of the S.C. Law Enforcement Division’s Fugitive Apprehension Team, who were working with the S.C. Department of Corrections’ Special Investigations Unit.
Bellis, who was serving a four year sentence for grand larceny at the minimum security Livesay Correctional Institution in Spartanburg, was transported to the Greenville Detention Center and will later be transported to a maximum security prison. He faces a felony escape charge and up to 15 more years in prison.
The two men with Bellis are being held at the Greenville Detention Center and face charges of aiding and abetting a fugitive.
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