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| Police capture escaped inmate in Wash. |
| By Associated Press; KING 5 |
| Published: 06/16/2004 |
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Police found an escaped jail inmate at a condo in Kent, Wash., after nearly 5 hours of searching. He had burst out of a police van early Tuesday afternoon. John C. Parks, 28, of Renton, Wash., burst out of a police van and ran off about 12:30 p.m. He was being taken from the jail at the Regional Justice Center in Kent to the Kent City Jail, where he was to make a video court appearance on a charge of driving with a suspended license. When the officer opened the side door of the van at Central Avenue S. and Alder Lane, Parks made a break for it and ran down the street with his hands cuffed behind his back. With two other prisoners in custody, the officer called for backup, but it was too late. Parks, wearing red prison clothes, dashed down busy Central Avenue before disappearing down a side street. An initial search of the area by 14 officers and a dog was unsuccessful and the search was briefly called off. One of the big breaks for police came when Chris Sullivan, who just started at 710 KIRO Newsradio, saw John Parks, the escapee he was sent to cover. The inmate ran into a busy apartment complex, where a tenant informed police the man they were looking for had just run into his apartment. Police finally made the arrest. Nobody was hurt. Parks had been serving a county-jail sentence on a drug conviction, but had no history of violent crime. He was due to being released in August. |
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