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BY KEITH EPPS
Two men who got out of prison Tuesday were free less than four hours before they were back in jail again, police said.
Fredericksburg police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe said the men were arrested and charged with stealing clothes from the Dollar General at 1255 Jefferson Davis Highway.
The two men had been brought to Fredericksburg to catch a bus to the Norfolk area. They never made it onto the bus.
They were apparently seeking some new attire to replace the clothes they'd been given upon being released from Coffeewood Correctional Center, Bledsoe said.
Stephen Brett Favre, 43, and Joshua Wayne Anderson, 45, were both charged with larceny and placed in the Rappahannock Regional Jail under no bond. Favre was also charged with obstruction of justice.
According to records from the state Department of Corrections, Anderson and Favre had both served more than two years for crimes committed in the Tidewater area.
They were released Tuesday and given clothes, a bus ticket, $25 in cash and a ride to Fredericksburg, Bledsoe said.
About 2 p.m., Bledsoe said, an employee in Dollar General noticed a shirtless Favre putting on pants over the pants he was wearing.
He also grabbed a shirt and a belt and walked out of the store.
Police were called and got a good description of the suspect, Bledsoe said. The suspect and another man, later identified as Anderson, were soon spotted near Allman's Bar-B-Q.
Bledsoe said Favre, the only suspect at the time, ran when confronted by police but was quickly caught. Anderson complied immediately, but police found clothes on him that had also been taken from Dollar General.
State inmate records show that neither man is a stranger to time behind bars.
Prior to his latest two-year stint, Anderson was sentenced to 18 years in prison for a robbery in Virginia Beach, records show.
Favre has had multiple theft-related convictions, primarily in Newport News, dating back to the early 1990s.
His sentences have totaled nearly 14 years.
Keith Epps: 540/374-5404
Email: kepps@freelancestar.com
