NATRONE COUNTY, WY—One of three inmates who escaped Friday from a jail in southwest Missouri is in custody in Wyoming.
Christopher Blevins, 37, was booked just before 1p.m. Wednesday, according to online jail records.
Just after 1:30p.m. Sunday, the Wallace County Kansas Sheriff’s Office received a report of a missing vehicle in the 400 block of North Gardner Street in Sharon Springs, according to Sheriff Marshall Unruh.
A local search for the missing vehicle was begun. The Wallace County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a suspicious red or maroon colored GMC Yukon that had been driving around Sharon Springs earlier that day and that it was now parked north of the 27-40 Store in front of the Welding Shop.
Authorities determined the vehicle was stolen out of Saline County Kansas. When the Saline County Sheriff’s office was contacted they stated that the person believed to have stolen the GMC Yukon was an escaped inmate out of Missouri identified as Blevins.
Wallace County Deputies were able to get video evidence of a man and woman associated with the GMC Yukon and confirmed that it was Christopher Allen Blevins who had escaped from the Barry Missouri County Jail on June3.
Wallace County Deputies then contacted the Barry County Jail in Missouri and learned Blevins had escaped with two others but that the U.S. Marshal's service were actively seeking the three escapees. The U.S. Marshal's service had reason to believe the three inmates had separated immediately after their escape as they had tracked one escapee to Arkansas and the other was still located in Missouri.
The Wallace County Sheriff’s Office was given the identity of the female party who was with Blevins. The U.S. Marshal's service believes the couple headed to Colorado as soon as they left Sharon Springs. The Wallace County Sheriff’s Office is seeking arrest warrants for the couple for the theft of the Wallace County Vehicle. As of June 8, the vehicle had not been recovered.
The U.S. Marshal's service does not believe the other two inmates were ever in Kansas. Marshals are working to get them apprehended again as soon as possible, according to Unruh.