Article: Springfield man caught after escape from jail.(Crime)(Sweet Home police find the sex offender who fled from custody in The Dalles)

Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard

SWEET HOME - A registered sex offender who escaped from jail in The Dalles last week was found hiding out in a friend's house in Sweet Home early Tuesday with stolen guns and a stolen car, police said.

James Edward Anderson, 35, of Springfield was being held in the Linn County Jail on warrants alleging second-degree escape and criminal mischief.

He was sleeping on a couch when Sweet Home police surrounded the house and took him into custody about 1 a.m.

Anderson had escaped from the Northern Oregon Corrections Facility in The Dalles on Aug. 9. He allegedly cut through a plasterboard ceiling, ...

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