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Jacobia Crisp pleaded guilty to aiding escapee Ramone Alston in August 2024.

Crisp received 18 months of supervised probation after suspended prison terms.

Alston’s sister faces pending charges for assisting in the same prison escape.

Almost a year after a convicted murderer’s escape, a Burlington woman pleaded guilty this week to helping him evade authorities.

Jacobia Shiner Crisp, 33, was sentenced Monday on charges of felony harboring an escapee and aiding an escape from prison, according to court documents. In exchange for her guilty plea, a charge of obstructing justice was dismissed.

Crisp helped Ramone Alston, 31, after he escaped from prison guards in August 2024 while attending a doctor’s appointm

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