South Carolina federal prison escapee captured in Asheville, marshals say

ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS) — The U.S. Marshals Service said a man who escaped from a federal prison in South Carolina was taken into custody early Tuesday morning in Asheville.

South Carolina authorities say Travis Shaqwann Fair, 36, was serving an 80-month prison term for possession of a firearm by a felon when he escaped from the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Federal Correctional Institution Edgefield in South Carolina on November 8.

With help from law enforcement in Asheville and North Carolina, U.S. marshals determined that Fair was hiding in a hotel off Tunnel Road.

He was taken into custody at the hotel on Tuesday, November 10, without incident.

In 2021, Fair pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a firearm after prosecutors said that, despite being a felon, he got his girlfriend to buy a gun for him at an Asheville shop.

He was sentenced to 80 months in prison and three years of supervised release in April 2022.