SALINA – A Kansas man arrested early Monday for breaking into a downtown Salina restaurant now has an additional charge of aggravated escape from custody.

After being questioned by police for breaking into the Taco John’s at 303 S. Santa Fe, and falling from the ceiling, Nicholas Briggs, 32, Salina, ran from an officer as he was being taken to the Saline County Jail about 6 p.m.

Briggs never left the building. He did get as far as the administrative offices of the Saline County Sheriff.

Briggs will face a requested charge of battery of a law enforcement officer, after he slammed a door on the hand of a police office when he started to run.

Briggs was not in handcuffs at the time he began his brief flight to freedom.

He had complained of injuries from the fall and was treated at a hospital before being taken to the jail.