CREDIT: Arkansas Department of Correction 
 
 SPRINGDALE, Ark. (KTHV) -- Steven Dishman escaped from the Cummins Unit in 1985. 
 
 Sunday, a little over 32 years after his initial escape, he was captured in Springdale. He was taken into custody by local law enforcement and Arkansas State Police. He is now being held in the Varner Unit. 
 
 Dishman was originally arrested in Washington County. He was serving a seven year sentence for theft of property and burglary, according to the Arkansas Department of Correction. 
 
 Dishman was convicted on December 20, 1984. He escaped on May 28, 1985. His original parole eligibility date was December 28, 1987 and his original discharge date was June 28, 1991. 
 
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 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Arkansas State Police (ASP) is shedding more light on the apprehension this past weekend of an escaped state prison inmate who had been on the run for more than 30 years. 
 
 The ASP is investigating where Steven Dishman has been since his 1985 escape. 
 
 
 
 Dishman, 60, was found Sunday at a home in Springdale by the ASP and Springdale Police Department. He is now being held at the Varner Unit in Grady. 
 
 
 
 Special Agents of the ASP Criminal Investigation Division have begun to question individuals who may have known Dishman by another name. 
 
 
 
 The ASP says an individual who had met Dishmam about five years after his escape came forward and told authorities where to find him. 
 
 Original story: 
 
 SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- A man on the run for more than three decades is back in custody, according to the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC). 
 
 Steven Dishman, 60, was taken into custody at a home in Springdale. Dishman was originally arrested for theft of property and burglary, according to Solomon Graves, the ADC Public Information Officer. 
 
 Dishman's original term was set for seven years from Dec. 20, 1984, when he was originally charged in Washington County for Theft of Property and Burglary. He would have been eligible for parole in 1987. 
 
 Dishman escaped custody in May 1985 from the Benton Unit. Earlier that year he was held at the Cummins and Wrightsville units. 
 
 Graves says Dishman will be required to finish his original sentence. 
 
 The file regarding the escape will be forwarded to the Jefferson County prosecutor for further possible action. ||||| An Arkansas inmate who escaped three decades ago from prison was taken into custody Sunday at a residence in the state’s northwest, according to a prisons spokesman. 
 
 In an emailed statement, Arkansas Department of Correction spokesman Solomon Graves said Steven Dishman, 60, was arrested at a home in Springdale. 
 
 Dishman escaped May 28, 1985, from a facility while serving a sentence on burglary and theft of property charges. He was sentenced Dec. 20, 1984, in Washington County, and was eligible for parole Dec. 28, 1987, Correction Department records show. 
 
 Dishman was taken into custody by local law enforcement officials as well as the Arkansas State Police. 
 
 It was not immediately clear Sunday afternoon from what facility Dishman escaped 32 years ago. Additional information regarding his capture was also not released. 
 
 Another Arkansas inmate, 39-year-old Joel W. Lane, was also caught Sunday after a foot chase in Pine Bluff. Lane escaped Saturday from a work release program in Pine Bluff while serving a sentence for simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm and possession of a firearm by a certain person. 
 
 Four prisoners in the state remain at large as of Sunday after escaping from facilities on various dates between July 5, 1988, and Tuesday, according to department records. ||||| SPRINGDALE (KFSM) — An inmate who escaped prison 32 years ago is back in police custody. 
 
 Steven Dishman, 60, was taken into custody Sunday (June 25) morning at a home in the 2700 block of McMillan Drive in Springdale, according to police. 
 
 Dishman was located after police received an anonymous tip. 
 
 He escaped from the Benton Unit during May 1985. Prior to that, he was being held at Cummins and Wrightsville prisons. 
 
 He had been sentenced to seven years for theft of property and burglary out of Washington County. 
 
 Dishman is now being held in the Varner Unit, a maximum security prison in Lincoln County, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
– After three decades on the lam, an Arkansas man has been quickly reacquainted with life behind bars. Steven Dishman, 60—who was five months into a seven-year sentence for burglary and property theft when he escaped from the Cummins Unit in Lincoln County, Ark., on May 28, 1985, reports KTHV—was arrested Sunday at a home in Springdale in the northwestern part of the state, report Arkansas Online and KFSM. Arkansas State Police and local cops raided the home after receiving a tip. A rep for the Arkansas Department of Correction tells Fox 16 that Dishman will now be required to serve the remainder of his sentence. Dishman may also face additional charges related to his escape, the details of which were not immediately explained. Had Dishman stayed in jail, he would have been eligible for parole in 1987 and freed by 1991.