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Four men serving prison time at a federal lockup in Virginia escaped early Saturday morning.
Corey Branch, Tavares Lajuane Graham, Lamonte Rashawn Willis and Kareem Allen Shaw were discovered missing around 1:45 a.m. from a minimum security camp in Hopewell, Va. The camp is a satellite facility from the nearby Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg.
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The Bureau of Prisons did not say how the four men escaped. All four men were serving time on gun and drug charges. The Hopewell facility usually holds 185 men.
Branch, 41, was convicted of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. He was sentenced to 13 years.
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Graham, 44, was sentenced to 10 years for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm while drug trafficking.
Willis, 30, was sentenced to 18 years for possessing and concealing a stolen firearm and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Shaw, 46, was convicted of possession with intent to distribute heroin and sentenced to more than 16 years.
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