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Escaped inmate caught by Daley security guard
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July 13, 2009

BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter
A member of Mayor Daley’s security team captured a convicted murderer near the mayor’s Michigan vacation home Monday morning, holding him at gunpoint until police arrived.

The takedown of the escapee from a maximum-security prison happened around 6:40 a.m. in a driveway on the 49000 block of East McKean, Grand Beach, Mich., about one-quarter mile from Daley’s beachfront property, said Grand Beach Police Chief Dan Schroeder.





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The Daley security officer caught Charles Smith, 48, who was convicted of murder in the 1990s, Schroeder said. The security guard then called local police who arrested Smith.


“We’re extremely appreciative, absolutely,” Schroeder said.


Smith, Mark Booher, 46, and Lance Battreal, 45, escaped from the maximum-security Indiana State Prison in Michigan City over the weekend.


Booher also was convicted of murder and Battreal was serving time for rape.


Schroeder said a man believed to be Booher escaped while the security guard was apprehending Smith. Local police in the quiet Michigan vacation area are on high alert, he said.


The man believed to be Booher was wearing a white shirt, grey sweat pants and blue shorts over the sweat pants, Schroeder said. He is described as a white male in his mid-40s, and asked anyone who sees someone matching his description to call police.


The prison the men escaped from is about 15 miles from Grand Beach.


Schroeder said this was the biggest police incident in town since a multi-million-dollar home near Daley’s summerhouse was torched in April 2008.


A letter sent days before the fire to Daley’s City Hall office threatened to torch his summer home in retaliation for the Chicago police killing a cougar loose in Roscoe Village in April 2008.