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Jail Escapee Captured After Three Years On The Run

Aug 1, 2025

A Summit County prisoner who had been on the run for three years is now in custody.

Forty-three-year-old Preston Hill had been granted a single-day furlough to attend a funeral in 2022 but failed to return to the county jail.

Hill was arrested Tuesday at a Patterson Avenue home in Akron.


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