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After a four-hour manhunt in Dartmouth, Halifax police captured a prisoner who escaped from a Sheriff’s Department van 
while being transported to provincial court Wednesday morning.
No further details are immediately available about his capture.
The man, identified as Thomas Arnold Jones, allegedly got out of the vehicle and was hanging on the back bumper as it travelled along the road toward the courthouse.
Jones's existing charges, dating back to 2011, include assault, break and enter, arson, unlawful confinement, breach of condition and uttering threats, said the provincial Justice Department.
He was awaiting sentencing today on a break-and-enter charge.
Police and sheriff's deputieshad searched for the man around the courthouse, Dartmouth General Hospital and a seniors' home. Some court documents were recovered in the area with Jones's name on them.
About three hours after he escaped, police were also searching for the man near Brock Street, just off Prince Arthur Avenue, a kilometre north of the hospital. It is believed that Jones's daughter lives on the street and that he may have been looking for her.
Police spent about half an hour on Brock Street near one duplex. The woman who answered the door later said she had no comment about what the police were doing there and no comment on whether she knew Jones.
A police team including six vehicles and a dog-handler were on the scene at Brock Street, later splitting up into two groups and going in different directions.
The Nova Scotia Community College Waterfront Campus emailed a warning to students asking them to call 911 if they see the man. Police were searching Mount Hope and the area around Penhorn Mall, the college wrote.
Earlier, police received a report that a man was cutting shackles off his legs on Stephen Street in Dartmouth. The woman who lives at the Stephen Street house where he was reported to be in the backyard said she wasn't home when police arrived, and she hadn't seen any signs of the man.
Police were searching in the Stephen Street area when a woman told them that a man had approached her in the parking lot of the Dollarama wanting her car. He didn’t get the vehicle, and headed south along Pleasant Street, near Brock Street.
Jones is described as white, five-foot-eight, and weighing 160 pounds, with black hair and blue eyes, as well as a tattoo over his left eye. He is wearing black jeans and cowboy boots and possibly leg shackles.
while being transported to provincial court Wednesday morning.No further details are immediately available about his capture.
The man, identified as Thomas Arnold Jones, allegedly got out of the vehicle and was hanging on the back bumper as it travelled along the road toward the courthouse.
Jones's existing charges, dating back to 2011, include assault, break and enter, arson, unlawful confinement, breach of condition and uttering threats, said the provincial Justice Department.
He was awaiting sentencing today on a break-and-enter charge.
Police and sheriff's deputieshad searched for the man around the courthouse, Dartmouth General Hospital and a seniors' home. Some court documents were recovered in the area with Jones's name on them.
About three hours after he escaped, police were also searching for the man near Brock Street, just off Prince Arthur Avenue, a kilometre north of the hospital. It is believed that Jones's daughter lives on the street and that he may have been looking for her.
Police spent about half an hour on Brock Street near one duplex. The woman who answered the door later said she had no comment about what the police were doing there and no comment on whether she knew Jones.
A police team including six vehicles and a dog-handler were on the scene at Brock Street, later splitting up into two groups and going in different directions.
The Nova Scotia Community College Waterfront Campus emailed a warning to students asking them to call 911 if they see the man. Police were searching Mount Hope and the area around Penhorn Mall, the college wrote.
Earlier, police received a report that a man was cutting shackles off his legs on Stephen Street in Dartmouth. The woman who lives at the Stephen Street house where he was reported to be in the backyard said she wasn't home when police arrived, and she hadn't seen any signs of the man.
Police were searching in the Stephen Street area when a woman told them that a man had approached her in the parking lot of the Dollarama wanting her car. He didn’t get the vehicle, and headed south along Pleasant Street, near Brock Street.
Jones is described as white, five-foot-eight, and weighing 160 pounds, with black hair and blue eyes, as well as a tattoo over his left eye. He is wearing black jeans and cowboy boots and possibly leg shackles.
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