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| Convicted murderer captured after Kansas jailbreak |
| By utsandiego.com - JOHN HANNA, Associated Press |
| Published: 04/20/2012 |
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TOPEKA, Kan. — A convicted murderer who escaped from a county jail in Kansas after being transferred from an overcrowded state prison has been caught, the state Department of Corrections said Friday. Santos Carrera-Morales, 22, was arrested in Russell, Kan., about 80 miles from the Ottawa County jail, around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, the department said in a statement. No other details were immediately available. Carrera-Morales and three other men escaped from the jail in Minneapolis, a small town about 120 miles west of Topeka, on Wednesday, sparking a furor that prompted the movement of the remaining 18 state inmates at Ottawa County back to the state prison in Ellsworth. Corrections department spokesman Jeremy Barclay applauded the Russell city police for their help in the arrest of Carrera-Morales, who he said was taken straight to Ellsworth Correctional Facility. Barclay said no one was injured in the arrest. Of the four men who escaped Wednesday, one was apprehended soon after and another, 21-year-old Drew Wade, turned himself in at a Walmart in western Nebraska the same day after his father counseled him to do so. A fourth inmate, 22-year-old Eric James, who was convicted of aggravated robbery, burglary, kidnapping and criminal damage in 2008, remained at large Friday. Read More. |
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