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He wasn’t hanging out at the prison library to bone up on botany or read the entire ouevre of Rumer Godden. Instead, Rudolfo García-Lopez was scouring the shelves for books containing maps of Texas, photocopying them to aid in his escape plan. After cutting through a prison fence and climbing serpentine wire to break out of the Newton County Correctional Center on Monday evening, García-Lopez — who had been serving up to twenty years for aggravated assault and attempted kidnapping — broke into a home a mile away, stealing clothes and jewelry, which he added to the tweezers, razor blade, sunglasses, cigarette lighter, vitamins and map that comprised his escape package. When cops found him yesterday, he was wearing a floral swimsuit, riding a stolen bike, and reeking of skunk spray. The odor had put police dogs off his trail, hindering search efforts. “He was dang sure out there,” said the local sheriff, according to Southeast Texas Live. “He got lucky he was sprayed with that skunk or we would’ve had him the other night.”