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Escaped Prisoner Captured

Illinois State Police

More than a month after he escaped in northern Illinois, a prisoner being transported across the country has been captured. Joshua Drinnon was arrested Monday, at a homeless shelter in Ashland, Oregon. 

Drinnon was being transported by a private company on September 2nd, when he escaped at a rest stop in Bureau County, near Princeton and along Interstate 80, and was last seen running into a corn field. Despite an intensive search by police, he wasn't found, and the search was suspended after two days. 

 
Officers received a tip on Sunday about his possible whereabouts, and he was arrested without incident on Monday. 
Drinnon is serving a prison term for aggravated robbery. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.