FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: January 19, 2008 Tim Stec, Criminal Investigator/Deputy United States Marshal Public Information Officer (803) 765-5985   Marshals’ Task Force Arrests Federal Prison Escapee After He Gets in the Car With Them   Terry Lowry, 59, was taken into custody this morning in Allendale County. Lowry, a native of Norman Park (GA), is alleged to have escaped from the Federal Correctional Institution in Estill on Tuesday, January 15. Deputies believe that he had been living in the woods since he was discovered missing from Estill earlier this week. Lowry was serving a 54 month federal sentence on cocaine charges that originated in the Southern District of Georgia. Deputy marshals and task force agents developed information soon after the escape that acquaintances of Lowry were going to arrange to have him picked up this morning at the intersection of Highway 301 and Highway 3 in Allendale. A Charleston police officer assigned to the Marshals’ Operation Intercept Fugitive Task Force posed as a friend of one of these acquaintances and was able to convince Lowry to get in the truck with him. Lowry ran to the truck once the law enforcement officer called his name. Backup deputies and officers conducted a traffic stop a short while later and Lowry was apprehended without incident. He was returned to FCI-Estill and will now face federal escape charges. Established in 1789, the United States Marshals Service is the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency. In fiscal 2006, the Marshals arrested more than 38,000 federal fugitives, clearing 41,000 felony warrants. Marshals Service-led task forces like South Carolina’s Operation Intercept arrested 46,800 state and local fugitives, clearing 54,300 state and local felony warrants. Locally, Operation Intercept arrested over 2,900 South Carolina fugitives during that same period. More information about the Marshals and other South Carolina fugitives can be found on the web at www.usmarshals.gov.