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| Officers capture inmate who fled |
| By Toledo Blade |
| Published: 11/18/2004 |
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An inmate being transported back to the Ottawa County (Ohio) jail from a court hearing fled from corrections officers yesterday but was recaptured a short time later in downtown Port Clinton. Sheriff's Sgt. Randy Riedmaier said James D. Speck, 31, was being returned to the jail from a hearing in Ottawa County Municipal Court when the escape occurred at 11:23 a.m. Sergeant Riedmaier said a Port Clinton police officer dropped off Mr. Speck inside a sally port at the jail. After Mr. Speck's handcuffs were removed, he ran out of the sally port's overhead door as deputies searched two other inmates who had arrived for processing. Deputies chased the inmate to the railroad tracks at Jefferson Street, then west along the tracks, where he was seen running down an embankment at Madison Street. A short time later, Mr. Speck was captured in the 200 block of Madison by Genoa Police Chief Mike Graalman, who happened to be in Port Clinton. The sheriff's office charged Mr. Speck with escape, a third-degree felony. An indictment filed yesterday in Ottawa County Common Pleas Court charged him with vandalism, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly breaking a window in a Port Clinton police cruiser during an arrest Nov. 7. Mr. Speck allegedly gave police false information during a traffic stop that led to his arrest. After he was arrested, he was charged in Ottawa County Municipal Court with two counts of menacing, falsification, escape, vandalism, and disrupting public service. |
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