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Escaped burglary convict caught near Portal
BURNETTE
Christopher Shawn Burnett
An escapee from Colquitt County Correctional Institute, convicted of committing several burglaries and other crimes in Bulloch County, was apprehended Thursday in the Portal area. Christopher Shawn Burnett, 26, was serving time for the 2010 convictions. "On Dec. 4 at 10:40 a.m., inmate Christopher Burnett ... walked away from an outside work detail in Colquitt County," said Gwendolyn Hogan, public relations and information coordinator with the Georgia Department of Corrections.
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