A daring escape attempt ended in the re-arrest and additional charges placed against a man already convicted in St. Johns County and serving two life sentences; according to news reports verified by Historic City News today.
On Sunday morning at about 8:00 a.m., 38 year-old David Alan Shuey was being transported from the Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Milton, FL back to St. Augustine to appear for a hearing in Circuit Court that was set to have taken place yesterday.
The van carrying Shuey, nine other prisoners and two transportation officers, stopped at a fast food restaurant in Tallahassee. When officers opened the back door of the van to offer the inmates food, Shuey threw a water bottle — striking one of the two officers in the face.
The 5’11”, 155 pound prisoner, who had managed to free himself from his leg restraints, leapt from the van; but was grabbed by transportation officers and wrestled to the ground. Shuey was shocked by Taser five times in his attempt to escape.
In a published interview with Robert Downs, President of Melbourne headquartered U.S. Prisoner Transport; he said this was the first time the company had someone try to escape while being fed.
In two separate attacks, one in 2002 in Ponte Vedra Beach and the other in 2003 at Guana State Park, Shuey was convicted of charges including armed sexual battery, armed kidnapping, and sexual battery with a firearm, robbery, and kidnapping.
On May 31, 2005, Shuey was sentenced by St. Johns County Circuit Judge J. Michael Traynor on all five convictions; receiving two life sentences, two fifteen-year sentences, and an additional thirty-year sentence. Shuey also faces charges in Jacksonville — the Duval County Sheriff’s Office placed a hold on him in February 2006.
He was being returned to St. Augustine because he has filed a motion challenging the effectiveness of his lawyer.
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