Francisco Guimarães Santana was recaptured in the early hours of this Sunday (12), in Rio Branco Archive/Iapen-AC After just over a year on the run, inmate Francisco Guimarães Santana, aged 26, was recaptured in the early hours of this Sunday (12), in Rio Branco. The prisoner had escaped from the Francisco de Oliveira Conde Penitentiary Complex (FOC) on June 19, 2025, when he and eight other inmates escaped from the prison unit. The arrest took place in the Boa União neighborhood, during a joint operation by the Homicide and Personal Protection Police Station (DHPP), the Acre Civil Police, and the Military Police (PM-AC). ? Download the g1 app to see AC news in real time and for free Francisco was one of the inmates who remained at large since the mass escape recorded last year. According to the Institute of Penitentiary Administration of Acre (Iapen-AC), on that occasion, the nine prisoners escaped at around 6 am on June 19, 2025. They were held in pavilion P of the Provisional Retention Penal Establishment Division of the state prison. One week after escaping from Rio Branco prison, none were recaptured READ ALSO: Escapes from AC prisons: 14 are still at large after two months; see who they are At the time, Iapen reported that the escape was the first carried out that year in the Acre prison system. Francisco Guimarães Santana is serving a sentence of 24 years and three months in prison for the crimes of receiving possession, illegal possession of a firearm and qualified homicide. According to prison system records, the expected end of the sentence is January 9, 2047. The Civil Police should hold a press conference this Monday (13) to inform the circumstances of the recapture. He was sent back to the prison system, where he will remain at the disposal of the Justice. VIDEOS: g1