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| Escaped Kansas Inmate Still Missing |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/23/2003 |
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A prisoner who escaped after attacking a sheriff's deputy who was taking him to see a doctor during the weekend remained at large Tuesday. Manuel Delavara-Leon, 44, escaped from the deputy's patrol car that stopped at a Dodge City intersection late Saturday afternoon. Ford County Undersheriff James Lane said the deputy suffered bumps and bruises in the attack, but did not require treatment. The deputy's name has not been released, Lane said, because the incident is still under internal investigation. The prisoner was riding in the front seat with the deputy at the time of the attack. Delavara-Leon, also known as Jose Ricardo Garcia-Lopez or Salazar, was being held on a parole violation. He had told officers he was feeling sick and needed to see a doctor, Lane said. 'I can't say that he faked an illness to get out of the jail because I don't know,' Lane said. 'I guess you could suppose that.' Lane said the department's policy on transporting prisoners in the front or back seat varies, depending on the situation. The car used Saturday did not have a protective cage between the front and back seat. Lane said the Sheriff's Office had caged vehicles for long-range transport, but deputies usually didn't use them for transporting prisoners locally. When there's not a cage, deputies feel safer with the prisoner up front, in handcuffs and a seat belt, so the person can be monitored and not a danger of attacking the driver from behind. Transporting prisoners in the front seat has long been a common practice among Kansas law enforcement agencies. In Reno County, prisoners frequently were transported in the front seat, next to the deputy, until technology and safety concerns forced them to the back. |
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