BREAKING: The last of four escaped inmates from the Ottawa County Jail has been captured.
The state Department of Corrections says 22-year-old Eric James was apprehended around 5:30 p.m. Friday in Omaha, Neb., and is now in the custody of Omaha police.
Details on how he was captured were not immediately released.
Authorities also recovered a stolen Nissan Altima that James was thought to have been driving.
James was serving a state sentence for robbery and other crimes when he and three fellow inmates escaped Wednesday morning from the Ottawa County Jail in Minneapolis, Kan., about 120 miles west of Topeka.
Late last night, the third escaped inmate was apprehended in Russell, Kansas.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Santos Carrera-Morales, who was serving prison time for two murders in Sedgwick County, was arrested in Russell, Kansas around 11:38 pm Thursday.
The police chief in the western Kansas town of Russell says a convicted murderer hitched a ride to a convenience store in the town, where he was arrested after escaping from a county jail.
Police Chief Jon Quinday told The Associated Press on Friday that escaped inmate Santos Carrera-Morales was taken into custody late Thursday by two police officers without incident at a store off of Interstate 70.