BREAKING ALERT: Escaped Inmate In N.C. Has History Of Kidnapping

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BOLIVIA, North Carolina — 22-year-old William Earl Hewett escaped by posing as another inmate. According to an inmate listing from the jail, Hewett was booked Jan. 21.

Hewett was being held on $151,500 bail for charges of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, communicating threats, first-degree kidnapping, eluding arrest with a motor vehicle, speeding and three counts of failure to appear on a misdemeanor.

Hewett is white with brown hair and blue eyes, 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds, according to his inmate listing.

An eyewitness told WWAY NewsChannel 3 he saw several deputies with guns and dogs run toward the woods outside the government complex in Bolivia about 4 p.m. Thursday. The man also told WWAY that law enforcement officers were looking in the backseat of cars.

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