DAYTON — UPDATE @ 1:40 a.m. (Feb. 5):
The man accused of escaping from the Montgomery County STOP facility by stealing a county van is scheduled to be arraigned in court today, records show.
Darryl E. Adams, 27, was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on a felony theft charge after driving away in a transportation van belonging to the agency on Jan. 23.
Dayton police arrested Adams in the 100 block of Indiana Avenue four days later, jail records show.
We are working to learn more about how he was taken into custody.
We will update this story with any new details that emerge from today’s arraignment.
FIRST REPORT
A man has escaped from the Montgomery County STOP facility, driving away in a transportation van belonging to the agency.
State troopers and Dayton police are working to track down 27-year-old Darryl Adams Jr. and the van he reportedly stole around 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Adams was one of three inmates on a work detail at the STOP campus when he drove away in the white van, according to a police report.
Adams is one of 96 probationers in the 90-day drug intervention program to which people are sentenced usually after other treatment or incarceration fails.
Housed in a former state prison facility, the inmates often use vans — under supervision — to go to the nearby Volunteers of America building and take meals back to the program’s participants.
A manager at the STOP program said the security guards drive the vans and the inmates are only allowed to ride and work by loading and unloading the meals.
Adams reportedly took advantage of the moment when a supervisor was signing for the meals.
He hopped in the van while he and two other people were supposed to be loading meals and took and off.
While state troopers usually handle the search for inmate who escape from this facility, Dayton police are assisting because of the stolen van.
The agencies are sharing information, but neither the van nor Adams has been spotted.
The van does have Montgomery County stickers on it, as well as county plates.
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