Two inmates back behind bars, third remains on run after prison breakout
Two inmates who escaped from a southeast Queensland prison are back in custody as the manhunt continues for a third.
May 15, 2023, updated May 22, 2025
A supplied image obtained on Monday, May 15, 2023, of Antonio David Mene, 28, who absconded from Palen Creek Correctional Centre at 14 May 2023. Queensland police have found two of the three escapees who fled the Palen Creek Correctional Centre in Rathdowney. (AAP Image/Supplied by Queensland Police Service)
The trio escaped from the Palen Creek Correctional Centre, about 100km southwest of Brisbane, on Sunday.
Two of the men, aged 32 and 20, were apprehended at Northgate in northern Brisbane about 10am on Monday and remain in police custody.
The search for third man Antonio David Mene, 28, continues.
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Mene is described by police as being Torres Strait Islander and about 170cm tall with the outline of his last name tattooed on the inside of his right arm.
He was serving three years for vehicular offences.
Police have urged anyone who has seen the men not to approach him but to call triple zero.
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