Man who escaped from Kansas jail caught about 48 hours later
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Saturday, April 24, 2021
ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) - An inmate who is accused of threatening an officer with piece of lumber after escaping from a Kansas jail was captured early Saturday.
The Atchison County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that 20-year-old Taggart Darnell Lee escaped about 48 hours earlier when staff failed to follow several security procedures, allowing him to manipulate a door lock and make his way into an unsecured area of the jail. From there he made his made outside, where an officer chased him for several blocks.