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 appointment in Hillsborough, The News & Observer previously reported. Alston was serving a life sentence at the Bertie Correctional Institution for the Christmas Day 2015 killing of 14-month-old Maleah Williams in Chapel Hill…