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August 10, 2009

Escapee has been captured

By Joe Malan and Kasey Fowler

Staff Writers



An inmate who escaped from a Wellington, Kan., prison facility Friday has been captured, according to the Kay County Sheriff’s Office.

Jared Sanchez, 30, was caught in Derby, Kan., late Monday. Kerry Barrows, a dispatcher for the sheriff’s office, said Undersheriff Steve Kelley got the call at 7:19 p.m.

Barrows said Sanchez was apprehended at a residence in Derby, a suburb of Wichita. He called the capture “uneventful” and Sanchez was “very cooperative.”

Sanchez was considered armed and dangerous before his capture. He had been spotted near Nardin Saturday and then eluded officers in a high-speed chase.

A sheriff’s deputy had spotted Sanchez in the car at the Oklahoma-Kansas state line on Oklahoma 177. After he turned off Interstate 35 eastbound toward Blackwell, they began the pursuit. The pursuit turned back west and Sanchez wrecked the vehicle west of I-35, where he fled on foot into a rural area between Blackwell and Nardin, running into a creekbed where he lost his pursuers.

Sanchez reportedly shot at a Kay County Deputy Sheriff, but the deputy was not hurt.

Sanchez was in the correctional facility on a warrant from Louisiana. Kelley believed the warrant was for a no bond probation violation stemming from auto thefts. Two charges have been added: Escape and battery on a corrections officer in Kansas.

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