CHARLESTON, W.Va.
Escaped inmate caught at Mexico border
A West Virginia inmate who escaped from a jail two days before his sentencing has been captured along the Mexico border in Texas, authorities said.
West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety spokesman Lawrence Messina said in a statement that Todd Wayne Boyes, 44, of Caldwell, Ohio, was captured about 4 a.m. Sunday.
U.S. Border Patrol agents told West Virginia State Police that Boyes was trying to cross the Rio Grande River at Laredo, Texas. Messina said Boyes was given a medical evaluation, then taken to the Webb County Jail in Texas.
Boyes had changed into civilian clothes and escaped the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston on Wednesday, but the jail staff didn’t notice until Thursday evening. A review of the facility’s security video showed Boyes leaving the facility the previous morning.
Boyes was to be sentenced Friday to up to 20 years in prison on charges including fleeing and possession of a stolen car.
He was initially charged with attempted murder after Charleston police Cpl. Renee Smith was hurt during a pursuit to arrest him, but the charge was dropped in a September plea deal.
According to investigators, the 5-foot-6, 220-pound Boyes obtained khaki pants and a dark green or grey jacket he wore to escape by posing as a civilian or jail trusty.
Three end-of-shift head counts failed to alert jail staff to his disappearance.
FAIRFAX, Va.
Boy jumps from overpass onto car, kills driver
Police say a 12-year-old boy jumped from an overpass above Interstate 66 in northern Virginia and fell onto a car, killing the driver.
The incident took place Saturday afternoon in Fairfax County. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in a statement Sunday afternoon that the boy landed on a Ford Escape and the impact incapacitated the vehicle’s driver.
The statement says the a passenger steered the vehicle off the interstate.
Geller says the driver of the Ford, 22-year-old Marisa W. Harris of Olney, Md., died at the scene.
The boy was taken to a local hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries.
