Glover had also been serving a four-year prison term he had received in Brockton Superior Court for assaulting a Whitman police officer and stealing his cruiser. Later the same year, Glover was serving his state prison sentence when he pleaded guilty to additional charges in connection with another escape from police in 1995.Ī Quincy court judge ordered Glover to serve two years in jail, to be served concurrently with his prison sentences. When DeFranco and other officers cornered Glover, he claimed to have a gun that turned out to be a container of Mace.Ī Norfolk Superior Court judge in March 1997 sentenced Glover to 6 1/2 to 7 years in state prison for the incident. Glover later abandoned the vehicle and tried to commandeer another vehicle from a 60-year-old man at a Gulf station on Furnace Brook Parkway in Quincy. The driver struggled with Glover before jumping out. Quincy police officer Barry DeFranco, who overpowered Glover during a standoff with police, appears in the episode.Īfter the escape outside Quincy court, Glover jumped into a car at Sea and Moffat streets. The cable network Investigation Discovery will feature Glover’s escape on one of its true crime shows, “I Escaped: Real Prison Breaks,” at 9:30 p.m. Glover was able to unlock his handcuffs with a key his girlfriend, Shannon Rideout, 19, of Weymouth, had slipped to him during a kiss at the Dedham jail eight days earlier. In November 1995, Glover escaped from a Norfolk County sheriff’s van just as it pulled up to the basement lockup outside Quincy District Court. It was a kiss from a girlfriend that was the “key” for then 19-year-old Christopher Glover. A national cable channel will re-create the dramatic 1995 escape of a South Shore car thief once dubbed “The Phantom.”
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