Posted October 15, 2017 04:54am
(KMZA)--Two inmates who escaped from the Marshall County Jail have been apprehended.
Sheriff Dan Hargrave told The Marysville Advocate that the escape occurred Saturday afternoon after a fire was set in the jail.
Hargrave said one of the escapees stole a truck at gunpoint from the jail parking lot, fled north and was apprehended near the Kansas-Nebraska state line.
Hargrave said shots were fired during the escape, but no injuries were reported.
No additional information is being released at this time.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will be taking over the case.