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2019 Alabama Prison Escapee Now Facing Florida Charges For Walnut Hill Machete Carjacking
June 27, 2026
A man who escaped an Alabama prison facility and allegedly staged a local carjacking in 2019 has been extradited to Escambia County, Florida.
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Travis Wyatt Dawson was served with outstanding warrants and extradited last week for felony carjacking with a weapon and misdemeanor battery. He remains in the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $102,500.
The charges stem from a July 14, 2019, incident on Miller Road in Walnut Hill. Dawson, who had escaped from a Loxley, Alabama, work release center four days prior, allegedly grabbed a victim from behind, brandished a machete, and stole a 2016 Dodge Caravan. As Dawson fled the scene, a witness jumped into the back of the minivan to try to stop him. The vehicle was later found abandoned after running out of gas at Interstate 65 and Government Street in Mobile.
Dawson eluded capture until May 2020, when he was apprehended in Louisiana.
At the time of his escape, Dawson was serving a 20-year sentence for a 2013 conviction for possession of a controlled substance in Escambia County, Alabama.
Pictured top: Officers from the Alabama Department of Corrections speak to an Escambia County (FL) deputy and a citizen a roadblock on Miller Road in Florida on July 12, 2019. Dawson allegedly carjacked a minivan just a few yards from this location on July 14, 2019. Pictured below: An Escambia County (FL) Road Prison K-9 team searches near a Rockaway Creek Road bridge that spans the Alabama-Florida state line. Pictured bottom: An Escambia County (FL) deputy helps maintain a perimeter around a neighborhood along Rockaway Creek Road at Grubbs Street in Atmore. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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3 Responses to “2019 Alabama Prison Escapee Now Facing Florida Charges For Walnut Hill Machete Carjacking”
@AmandaHarris, Dawson did this to himself. No one forced him to escape or break the law to begin with. It’s not anyone’s fault but his. On another note, had he cared about his child at all, he’d try to be a decent person. He’s not doing that either. So why don’t you ask him what the hell is HE doing?
How can yall domthis to him he has a child and now she is questioning how they can do this he already did his time what the hell are yall doing here
“was served with outstanding warrants and extricated recenthly” Do you think he was extricated? Looks like it was just the opposite. As for “recenthly”, why don’t you run a spell checker?