Texas inmate armed with knife captured after escape and attempted carjacking
Police caught a Texas inmate-turned-fugitive armed with a knife early Friday, after he escaped following a court appearance in Houston.
Police caught a Texas inmate-turned-fugitive armed with a knife early Friday, after he escaped following a court appearance in Houston.
Joshua Nigel Thomas Sanders, 35, escaped around 3.30 p.m. Thursday, before holding a district attorney’s office employee against her will and trying to take her car, officials said.
The Harris County Texas Sheriff's Office said in a statement on X that Sanders, 35, was captured at a property in Houston by the violent offenders fugitive task force.
Sanders resisted arrest and was tasered. He is currently being treated in a local hospital because of the "use of force incident" during his arrest, Saul Suarez, major of the criminal investigations bureau at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said during a news conference early Friday.
Once he is considered well enough by doctors, he will be taken back to the Harris County Jail.
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