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| Ohio inmate caught in Kentucky |
| By The Middletown Journal |
| Published: 06/26/2006 |
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LEBANON, OH - An inmate who escaped Friday from the honor farm at the Lebanon Correctional Institution was captured, along with a woman accomplice, in a residence in Fort Wright, Ky., Saturday evening. According to the Lebanon post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, inmate Joseph Huffman and his accomplice Shirley Brown, 41, of Cincinnati, were arrested by Fort Wright police. They were apprehended at about 9:30 p.m. after receiving information from the highway patrol. Huffman tried to escape as police were trying to arrest him. He jumped through the rear window of the house he was in and was Tased when ordered to stop, according to Sgt. Randy Newsom. Huffman was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital South where he was treated and released. Huffman and Brown are being held in the Kenton County Jail pending extradition to Ohio. Huffman will face a charge of felony escape and Brown will face a charge of aiding the escape of a felon. No court date has been set for Lebanon Municipal Court. Ellen Myers, LCI spokeswoman, said early Saturday evening that authorities had been focusing their efforts in the Cincinnati area. Authorities on Friday also said that Huffman had a last known address in Independence, Ky. Huffman reportedly hot-wired a state-owned pickup truck and fled the honor farm located adjacent to the Lebanon and Warren correctional institutions. The escape occurred at about 6:55 p.m. Friday. The 1992 pickup truck and his prison uniform were found about two hours later at a Wal-Mart Supercenter off Interstate 75 at the Cincinnati-Dayton Road exit in West Chester Twp., according to authorities. Huffman was serving four years on several convictions out of Hamilton and Clermont counties for receiving stolen property, theft and forgery. He began his sentence March 10, 2005, and was scheduled to be released Feb. 17, 2008. |
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