[Nik Naym]

"All the allegations come from the same source - the police agency that he embarrassed by escaping from jail with a can opener. "

Bullcrap. The State Police have absolutely nothing to do with keeping prisoners in county jails, or state prisons.

Are you suggesting the only reason they went after this guy so with so much force is because he escaped from jail?

Get real.

[oldfart]

If you really think the various police agencies aren't joined more closely than Siamese twins, you need a reality check. Sure the sheriff's office was watching over the county jail, but when one agency is embarrassed, they all feel the sting and react (publicly) as if they're one. Later, after things settle down, there may be some snide cross-talk between them, but cases like this one tend to bring them even more closely together.

[muawiyah]

He'd escaped the cops since April and here it is 5 months later and he's still loose, and hanging around home.

He was definitely embarrassing somebody ~ then 3 state troopers went after him and he got the drop on them first.

You ever have 3 state troopers come after you?

That's a lot of 'em in any state.

The troopers were correct to be exceptionally frightend of this guy later on but I'm not sure over 1,000 cops after one guy was all that necessary. Think of all the other criminals who got away with what they were doing because the cops distracted themselves for one guy.