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Fugitive Captured After Escaping Custody

(KNZA)--A Mayetta woman was captured late Tuesday night after escaping from a patrol vehicle on the Prairie Band Potawatomi reservation.

Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse says 30-year-old Saleena Rae Masquat was arrested on a probation violation warrant and placed in a parked tribal  patrol vehicle at 156th Lane when she escaped through a window and fled on foot.

Utilizing tracking dogs, Morse says officers located Masquat less than a mile east of Buffalo Drive and took her into custody shortly before midnight.

In addition to the warrant on the probation violation charge, Morse says Masquat was also arrested for aggravated escape from custody and on felony drug charges.  She remains in the Jackson County Jail.

Following her escape, the Sheriff’s office sent out an alert to the public around 10:30 Tuesday night saying a female fugitive was on foot on the reservation.  The alert urged residents to remove the keys from their vehicles and to keep their doors locked.
   

 

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