N.M. Escapees Captured Here
Three convicts who broke out of the New Mexico state prison in Sante Fe on July 4 were captured today in Garden Grove after they allegedly kidnaped a family of five in Flagstaff, Ariz., authorities said.
James Neal Kinslow, 27, who had been serving time for three murders, was arrested after the vehicle belonging to the kidnap victims was spotted on a street in Garden Grove, according to Herb Hawkins, agent-in-charge of the Phoenix FBI office. The two other escapees, William Wayne Gilbert and David Benjamin Gallegos, were arrested in a Garden Grove motel. The kidnaped family was not harmed. The three were among seven who broke out of the prison on Independence Day, triggering an intense manhunt in the Santa Fe area and in surrounding states. The four other inmates were captured within eight days.
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