Inmate from Central Nova facility arrested one day after escape

An inmate who escaped from the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth has been arrested one day after escaping.

Early Tuesday afternoon, Halifax Regional Police and the Department of Justice issued news releases about Ryan Taylor Wilband, 43.

Wilband had escaped the facility, located in the Burnside Industrial Park, at around 12:30 p.m. on Monday.

By 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, police updated the file to say Wilband had been found in Greenwood, N.S. and arrested by RCMP. Greenwood, which is in the Annapolis Valley, is about an hour and a half drive away.

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The Department of Justice says Wilband was on remand at the facility for several charges, including robbery, theft under $5,000, committing an offence with a weapon and breaches of probation.

In May, Wilband was charged after two bank robberies in Berwick and Greenwood. At the time, police said a man carrying a hammer robbed the first bank, and a man carrying a knife robbed the second one.

The Department of Justice says it is conducting a full review of this incident.