A bank robbery suspect described by police as always armed and willing to shoot it out rather than go back to prison is the second violent criminal to walk away this year from a minimum-security facility intended to prepare them for their eventual release.
Colorado Springs police said Wesley H. Dunmire, 21, has been linked to five bank robberies since being released from the Sterling Correctional Facility to the Cheyenne Mountain Re-entry Center in Colorado Springs on Jan. 5. Dunmire, who was sentenced to a 5-year sentence for a July 2, 2009 burglary, was last seen at the center on May 6.
Dunmire’s escape from the halfway house comes a few months after Jesse Mathews walked away in mid-February from a Community Corrections transitional facility where he was an inmate after serving almost eight years of a 20-year prison sentence for an armed robbery and kidnapping spree in 2003. Matthews now faces the death penalty after a shootout during an attempted pawnshop robbery April 4 in Chattanooga, Tenn., in which police Sgt. Tim Chapin was fatally shot.
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