Escaped Inmate With Violent Past Captured After Placement On TBI's 10 Most Wanted List

  • Friday, August 5, 2016
Quinton Stewart
Quinton Stewart

An inmate of the Tennessee Department of Correction, who walked from a work detail, has been captured, several hours after being placed on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Top 10 Most Wanted list.

Quinton Stewart, 34, was wanted by the Tennessee Department of Correction and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for an escape from a work detail originating from Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Davidson County on Thursday.

On Friday afternoon, TDOC agents discovered Stewart walking along a wooded roadway in the Coffee County community of Beech Grove. He was taken into custody without resistance and transported to Morgan County Correctional Complex where charges are pending. 

Stewart was being housed at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution and was serving 25 years for second-degree murder from Rutherford County. His sentence was set to expire in October, 2019.

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