COLUMBUS, Kan. —
Jimmy Dale Sluder, who escaped Sunday from the Cherokee County Jail, was arrested Tuesday night in a Pittsburg apartment.
Sluder also is suspected of a residential burglary in Columbus after he escaped.
The arrest was made at 7:37 p.m. by officers with the Pittsburg Police Department and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department. Sluder was found in the bathroom of an apartment.
Sheriff David Groves said one of the many people investigators had interviewed about Sluder’s escape informed the Sheriff’s Department of his whereabouts.
Sluder is suspected of breaking into a Columbus house Tuesday afternoon, tying up the homeowner, and leaving with a vehicle and other property. The homeowner wasn’t injured, and was able to free himself in short order and notify authorities.
Originally in jail on theft charges, Sluder was part of an inmate work program when he was taking out trash under supervision about 3 a.m. Sunday. He ran away.
It was the first escape in several years, since the current jail building opened in 2005.
Groves said the inmate work program has been suspended until policies and procedures can be reviewed. He said it’s a useful program, providing inmates with something to do, and providing the county and area communities with free labor. He said inmates have assisted without incident in cleaning up trash from ditches, taking down equipment at the Galena Days festival and installing fencing at the Baxter Springs rodeo grounds.
He said he can’t say yet if all policies and procedures were followed early Sunday, but if they were, the policies failed.
“We will certainly review this incident,” Groves said. “I take this responsibility pretty seriously — to keep the inmates in custody — and we obviously failed in this instance.”
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