BUTLER COUNTY — Four of the five inmates who escaped from a Missouri jail have been arrested in Ohio, according to authorities.
Aaron Wade Sebastian, 30, Kelly McSean, 52, Lujuan Tucker, 37, Michael Wilkins, 42, and Dakota Pace, 26 escaped Tuesday night from the St. Francois County Detention Center in Farmington, according to the U.S. Marshals Office.
Wilkins was taken into custody in Missouri shortly after the escape, the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department said in a social media post.
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On Friday at approximately 10 p.m., the Ohio Highway State Patrol conducted a traffic stop and arrested Sebastian and McSean in the Liberty Township, Ohio area.
Pace fled the traffic stop on foot and was not located after law enforcement checked the area near the 4000 Block of Brook Hill Street in Liberty Township.
Pace was taken into custody by deputies from the Butler County Sheriff’s Office just after 9 a.m. Saturday morning approximately one-half mile from where all fled.
The sheriff’s office released drone footage from the Trenton Police Department of the moment Pace was apprehended.
Drone footage from the Trenton Police Department of the moment Dakota Pace was apprehended by the Butler County Sheriff’s Office on January 21, 2023 at 0900hrs. pic.twitter.com/g8woavg2wP
— Richard K. Jones (@butlersheriff) January 21, 2023
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At approximately 2:15 a.m. Saturday morning, Tucker was also arrested by law enforcement at Union Centre Blvd. and Jacquemin Drive in West Chester Township, Ohio.
All four have been booked at the Butler County Jail.
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