BG Police capture two escaped inmates in Fostoria

Editor’s note: The attached report aired before the inmates were captured.

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (WTVG) - Law enforcement in Bowling Green have reported that the two inmates who escaped from the Northwest Community Corrections Center have been captured.

BGPD says on June 2 at approximately 12:30 p.m., Justin Firman, 36, and Dakota Embry, 24, were captured in Fostoria on Turley Road. Both have been charged with escape and were transported to the Wood County Justice Center in Bowling Green.

According to BGPD, Emma Busler, a 30-year-old woman from Deshler, Ohio has been charged with felony obstructing justice. Police haven’t said how she’s connected to the escape.

On June 1, Firman and Embry escaped from the NCCC, located on 1740 East Gypsy Lane. Firman was facing abduction charges and Embry was facing drug possession charges.

According to NCCC, the two men got over the fence in the recreation yard around 8:05 p.m. Corrections officials did a formal count at 8:25 p.m. to deduce the identities of those that escaped, and alerted BGPD at 8:29 p.m.

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office said Embry has family in friends in the county.

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