COBB COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

PRESS RELEASE

 

 

 

Inmate Captured

 

 

 

        Dameon James Niswonger who escaped from the Cobb County Prison Unit, was captured by Cobb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Investigators and Fulton County Police at the Microtel Inn in Dunwoody Georgia. 

 

 Niswonger escaped from custody at the Prison Unit of the Cobb County Adult Detention Facilities on January 16, 2006 at approximately 12:30 pm. Initial indications are that while in the exercise yard, he scaled a 10 foot barbed wire fence and fled the area by vehicle.

 

On January 17, 2006 at approximately 10:30 pm Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Investigators following multiple leads located Niswonger and Lana Wigley at the Microtel Inn in Dunwoody.  Niswonger was captured without incident and Ms. Wigley was arrested on a felony charge of aiding in the escape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RELEASE DATE:   Tuesday, January 17, 2006.  For further information contact  Col. M. Beck at 770-499-4650

 



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