 Hamilton police say Fawad Ahmed Nouri who was freed by two armed and masked men while being escorted out of hospital on Tuesday is back in custody. (HPS photo)
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An escaped prisoner was arrested in Hamilton around suppertime Friday night, three days after he bolted from hospital with the aid of two accomplices.
Hamilton police received a phone call around 6 p.m. about a suspicious person in the Stone Church Rd. E. and Upper Ottawa St. area who matched Fawad Ahmed Nouri’s description.
When an officer saw the man, who was wearing a hoodie and had his face partially covered, he took off.
After a few blocks, the man stopped and raised his hands, police said in a statement.
The suspect had a replica handgun in his waistband and handcuffs in his pocket, police said.
Nouri, 25, is being held in custody and will appear in court Saturday along with one of his alleged accomplices who was also arrested last night at the scene. Didar Kader, 19, of Hamilton.
The other man suspected of overpowering two prison guards to free Nouri at Hamilton General Hospital was arrested Thursday.
Officers raided two homes and arrested Shaddy Milhim, 19, of Hamilton.
Police had posted a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Nouri and for those who helped whisk him away from the hospital.
The masked trio fled in the guards’ prison van, which was abandoned about a block away. They then jumped into a Hyundai Tiburon and disappeared.
Nouri, charged with robbing a Tim Hortons in Hamilton in January, was wounded in the arm during a shootout with police and he’s alleged to have fired a sawed-off shotgun at cops.
He was in the hospital over the shooting injury.
About six years ago in Scarborough, Nouri used a shotgun to disarm a Toronto constable.
Hamilton Police Supt. Bill Stewart said investigators received numerous tips and that led to warrants being issued to search homes on Quigley Rd. and on Thorley Dr., both in the Steel City.
Police also seized the suspected getaway car, a 1998 Tiburon, on Thorley Dr.
— With files from Jenny Yuen
rob.lamberti@sunmedia.ca
