From Galveston to Irving

From Galveston to Irving. No, we're not talking about me. Did you hear about the guy who escaped from the Galveston prison hospital? He made the news in Dallas when he--I believe--robbed a woman in Oak Cliff. Then he was caught in an Irving park.

By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News
teiserer@dallasnews.com

Authorities captured a 21-year-old state prison escapee in Irving this morning.

Joshua Barnes escaped Saturday from a prison hospital in Galveston, authorities said. He also is suspected of robbing a woman Monday morning at her West Oak Cliff home before fleeing in a white Chrysler PT Cruiser.

Police had initially received a call of a suspicious person in an Irving park this morning. Barnes then fled into a home and later surrendered.