The suspected prowler who was shot and killed by a Clark County sheriff’s deputy Sunday was involved in an Idaho jail escape and an Oregon bank robbery in 2002.
Paul Joseph Kolar, then 23, and an accomplice escaped from jail in Benewah County, Idaho, and drove to Elgin, Ore., in a stolen Subaru station wagon in May 2002, according to the La Grande Observer. Once there, Kolar entered a US Bank and used a shotgun to demand money from three female bank employees, the newspaper said.
After escaping with money and leading police on a high-speed pursuit, Kolar and the accomplice were arrested at gunpoint, the paper reported.
At the time of his escape, Kolar was being held in the Benewah County jail awaiting transfer to an Idaho state prison for a felony conviction, the newspaper reported. In October 2001, Kolar was convicted of delivery of a controlled substance, though the case was suspended and later dismissed, according to the Idaho Department of Corrections.