Probationer, Kodee Crouser, Attempts Audacious Escape.
MURRIETA (CNS) – A probationer managed to get away from a Menifee police officer who transported him to the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta Tuesday, but an immediate search by officers and sheriff’s deputies led to the man’s apprehension not far away.
Kodee Crouser, 24, of Menifee was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of vandalism and probation violations, after which a patrol unit took the suspect to the Murrieta jail, according to the Menifee Police Department.
Agency spokesman Chase Coburn alleged that while an officer was standing with Crouser, waiting to be buzzed into the detention facility at 12:12 p.m., the probationer “was able to separate himself from the officer and flee.”
The officer requested assistance from Riverside County sheriff’s deputies at the jail, and the law enforcement personnel fanned out to search the premises, where the Southwest Justice Center in also located.
Coburn said within the hour, the suspect was found and taken back into custody, then booked into the jail, without further complications.
No one was injured.
An internal police department investigation was underway to determine why the escape occurred and whether to seek additional criminal charges against Crouser because of it.
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