WATCH: A Man in A Flag Shirt Tackles the Mansfield Prison Escapee

By Alaina Nutile on Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:23 am

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An escaped inmate from the Mansfield Correctional Facility has been captured thanks to a flag-shirt wearing good samaritan.

Police reported that escaped convict James David Myers was spotted at a check-out counter at a general store in Ashland yesterday evening when a customer recognized him and tackled him to the ground.

The man restrained the inmate until the Ohio State Highway Patrol arrived a short time later.

Myers has been returned to the Mansfield Correctional Facility.

Props to flag-shirt wearing hero.

'Murica.

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Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College...

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