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| Two inmates who escaped from officers back in custody |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/12/2004 |
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Two prisoners who escaped from the custody of East Texas law officers appeared lost and in need of directions when searchers tracked them down over the weekend. Richard Allen Hancock and Ronald Wayne Lee were arraigned last Sunday morning on charges stemming from their three-hour flight from East Texas toward the Oklahoma border. Investigators accuse the pair of kidnapping and later releasing a Terrell man before they were spotted on a gravel road and apprehended in Bonham by police Cpl. William Abbott. Hancock, 53, "really didn't have anyplace to go," Abbott told The Dallas Morning News in last Monday's editions. "He was actually lost. He thought the guy he was with knew the area, but he didn't." Lee, 37, faces charges in the robbery and kidnapping and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, police said last Sunday. Hancock faces eight charges, including aggravated robbery, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, carjacking and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. The two were held in the Fannin County sheriff's office in Bonham, awaiting possible transfer back to a Kaufman County detention facility, police said. The inmates escaped while being transported from a Bowie County detention facility in Texarkana to a Kaufman County facility. Police said Hancock overpowered two officers in the van and left with Lee, who later told police that he was taken along unwillingly. The Bonham police officer said he didn't know what to expect when he first pulled over the inmates in a stolen van, knowing they were probably armed. He said Hancock dropped a gun onto the driver's seat when he finally stepped out of the vehicle. "I guess he decided not to do a gunbattle and gave up peacefully. It could have gone either way," he said. |
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