MINNEAPOLIS – A Kansas Department of Corrections inmate who eventually was captured in Russell County was found guilty Thursday of aggravated escape from custody while being housed in the Ottawa County jail in 2012, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced today.

Santos M. Carrera-Morales, 24, was found guilty by an Ottawa County jury of aggravated escape from custody and battery on a corrections officer. Chief Judge Jerome P. Hellmer presided over the trial. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 11.

Carrera-Morales was sentenced when he was 17, along with two others, for the 2007 deaths of a 16-year-old and 18-year-old in Wichita.

Three other inmates have previously been sentenced for the escape. Alberto Barraza-Lujan and Drew Wade were each sentenced in March to an additional 136 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections. Eric James was sentenced in July 2012 to 18 years in federal prison for carjacking charges related to the escape.

In April 2012, the three escaped from the Ottawa County jail. Carrera-Morales was captured at a Russell County convenience store just off Interstate 70 in Russell County.

Assistant Attorney General Steve Karrer from Schmidt’s office prosecuted the cases.