Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman and Montgomery County Correctional Facility Warden Julio M Algarin announce the arrest and filing of charges against Raehib Hankerson for Escape from the county correctional facility.
The defendant is and was an inmate being housed at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility on a Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Violation. The defendant was incarcerated at the correctional facility on August 24, 2014 and was housed in the Community Corrections Center at the time of this incident. On September 1, 2014 the defendant was permitted to participate in outside yard activities. While outside in the secured yard, the defendant was able to manipulate the wire fencing. By doing so, the defendant was able to crawl through the fence and escape outside the correctional facility’s confines. Immediately upon learning of the escape, prison officials contacted the local police and county detectives and a county wide bulletin alert was issued for the defendant.
In response to this incident, local police from Lower Providence, Plymouth, Collegeville, West Norriton as well as Detectives from the Montgomery County Detective Bureau worked together with prison officials in apprehending the defendant. A perimeter was set up and an individual fitting the defendant’s description was seen by Lower Providence Police Chief Francis (Bud) Carroll. Chief Carroll saw the defendant near the wooded area around
Eagleville Road and Ridge Pike in Lower Providence. Plymouth Township Police Officer Jonathan Monaghan and K9 Fox, along with Corporal Matthew Kuhnert, Lower Providence Police Department, were able to locate and apprehend the defendant, who was hiding in the thick brush near the area where he was sighted by Chief Carroll. The defendant was taken into custody without incident and returned to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility
within two and a half hours of his escape.