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Florida woman opens her car door and finds an escaped prisoner

A Lady Lake woman left her home on May 24 and found a man hiding in her car, which was parked in her driveway. It turned out that the man, Jesse James Hall, 32, had escaped from an Orlando prison two days earlier.

The woman heard her car alarm sound several times and went outside to investigate, according to a police report. When she opened the car door, Hall grabbed her right arm, but she broke free, ran inside her home and called 911. The woman also armed herself with a gun.

Hall was standing in the woman’s driveway when Lake County City Police officers arrived. The suspect then “fled,” according to the police report, and officers pursued him. Hall ran a short distance, then turned around and surrendered.

Hall was charged with robbery, assault, resisting arrest without violence and providing false identification.

Hall originally told officers his name was Jesse Hillman, but officers were able to identify him through his fingerprints.

After confirming Hall’s identity, police learned he was serving a seven-year sentence in state prison for two counts of auto theft, 2 counts of possession of methamphetamine, and 2 counts of sale of methamphetamine within 1,000 feet. of a church. He was originally sentenced in March 2019.

Details about Hall’s escape from prison in Orlando were not immediately available.

He was jailed without bail issued due to his active escape warrant from the Florida Department of Corrections. He remains in the Lake County Jail.

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