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| Inmate escapes, caught five hours later near Townsend |
| By Bozeman Daily Chronicle |
| Published: 03/01/2004 |
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A Gallatin County (Mont.) jail inmate escaped custody early last Wednesday morning with help from a gun-wielding accomplice, only to be caught north of Townsend about five hours later. At about 12:30 a.m., a sheriff's deputy was taking Johnnie Albert Shults, 34, to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. As the deputy was getting out of his car, Rebecca Lynn Marty, 20, allegedly approached him, pointed a handgun at him and demanded Shults be released. The deputy was then locked in the back seat of the vehicle, and Shults and Marty ran south through the hospital parking lot. The suspects jumped in a 1979 Ford Fairmount and headed north on Highland Boulevard. "(The deputy) broke the car's window out right away," Gallatin County Sheriff Jim Cashell said last Wednesday. "He then called for help." Cashell said nearly 30 officers from across the Gallatin Valley were on the case immediately. "We were able to make an identification of the vehicle and got it out as quick as we could," Cashell said. A little before 5 a.m., a Broadwater County deputy stopped Shults' vehicle just north of Townsend. Marty was found inside and arrested. Shults, who had been awaiting trial on bad check charges and breaking probation, was located about an hour later hiding in a nearby ditch. He had been in Gallatin County's jail for 65 days before the escape. |
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