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Escaped convicted rapist caught
By northwestgeorgianews.com- Carolyn Grindrod
Published: 04/25/2014

The pursuit of an escaped Floyd County rapist — headed up by federal marshals and involving several local law enforcement agencies — ended with the man’s arrest in Polk County on Wednesday afternoon.

Police officials said fugitive Winford Reece Ellis, 39, ran from a Georgia State Patrol trooper and tried to take the trooper’s service weapon.

He then led several law enforcement agencies on a manhunt through Cave Spring and into Polk County before officers and U.S. marshals caught up with him at a house on Friendship Road.

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