WINFIELD – The search for a missing Kansas inmate is over. The Cowley County Sheriff’s Department reported in a media release deputies received information from Kay County Oklahoma that John Douglas Wooten was in the Newkirk Oklahoma area.

He was arrested and is being held pending extradition to Kansas to face the original charges of theft, forgery, making false information and new charges of aggravated escape from custody.

Wooten was out on a court ordered furlough and did not return to the jail after his mental evaluation on April 20.