An inmate’s daughter was arrested for helping her father escape from prison, arrest reports show.
On Tuesday afternoon, Dennis Claude Carver, 45, of Dallas, escaped from a minimum security prison in Dallas, police said. His daughter, Tonya Renee Carver, has been charged with felony charge of accessory after the fact. She was held at Gaston County Jail and released on a $10,000 bond.
Arrest reports show Dennis Carver escaped about 2:30 p.m. before calling Tonya and meeting her at Cox Road by I-85. Tonya Carver is also accused of driving her father to Kings Mountain.
Police picked them both up later.
Tonya Carver, 22, of Dallas, has said she thought her father had a home pass and didn’t know he was escaping when she saw him. He had a 20-month prison sentence at Gaston Correctional Center for larceny over $1,000 and motor vehicle larceny and he was seven months into the sentence. Carver was a maintenance worker at the prison and may have been working outside the perimeter fence of the prison when he fled.
Carver is now held at Caldwell Correctional Center in Lenoir in “restrictive housing,” a spokesman with the N.C. Department of Public Safety said. He is charged with felony escape from prison.
He has been jailed before for larceny of a motor vehicle, felony breaking and entering, breaking and entering into vehicles, obtaining property by false pretenses hit-and-run resulting in serious injury or death, impaired driving, and habitual impaired driving. He was also convicted of assaulting a child in 1995.
In the last two years, Tonya Carver has been arrested in Gaston County a few times and charged with obtaining property by false pretense, failure to appear, and driving with a revoked license.
