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Wednesday, October 25.1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Police recapture Beers after three-day search
Convict chased down in Oklahoma woods
The Associated Press
WATTS, Okla. — With law enforcers closing in, a three-time escape became so desperate for freedom he begged to be hidden by a man watching a police search from his yard.
Instead, the Watts, Olda., resident yelled to his wife to call police and bring him a gun, police said. Then he chased Chad Allan Beers half a block to a wooded area where more than 10 law enforcers were waiting Monday night.
The short chase ended a three-day manhunt that straddled the state line, taking in parts of Adair County in Oklahoma and Washington County in Arkansas. The U.S. Marshal Service began offering a $5,000 reward Monday for information leading to Beers' arrest.
"He chased him right down into this small wooded area," Watts police officer Ron Gardenhier said. "We all went in there and flushed him out."
The search began early Saturday when Beers, 25, escaped from the Washington County Jail in Arkansas. Arkansas State Police said he climbed over a wire fence, attacked a woman and took her car, which he later wrecked.
Beers, a former Lawrence resident, was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for robbing a Lawrence bank.
More than 100 officers were searching a 10-by-6 mile area Monday because authorities thought Beers was in the vicinity, Washington County Sheriff's Capt. John Riggins said.
Events came to a head about 7 p.m., when a woman was attacked while riding a bicycle on a dirt road near the Watts rodeo arena, police dispatcher Teresa Simmons said.
The woman reportedly was beaten, and her bicycle was stolen, Simmons said. She was taken to the hospital, and it was not immediately confirmed that Beers was her attacker.
Beers caught
The three-day manhunt for fugitive Chad Beers ended Monday in Watts, Oklahoma.
Kelly Cannon/KANSAN
But the description she gave matched that of the escapee, and law enforcers began combing the town of 350 people, only two miles from the Arkansas line. The search for Beers soon narrowed down to a small neighborhood.
Rocky Fletcher was standing in his yard as officers from the Watts and Westville police departments, Adair County Sheriff's Office and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol roamed the neighborhood.
"Rocky was telling somebody to get him a gun. He chased him right down to where we were," Garden-hier said.
Fletcher could not be reached for comment Monday night.
Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Mike Blevins said it was possible Fletcher would qualify for the award, but authorities were trying to piece together what had happened.
ON CAMPUS
Beers was arrested about 7:40 p.m. and booked into the city jail at Westville, a few miles south of Watts. Blevins said Beers would be taken back to the Washington County jail in Fayetteville, Ark., by morning.
When he escaped, Beers was awaiting a federal trial at Fort Smith, Ark., on charges stemming from a 1994 escape from the Sebastian County Justice lain. A spokesman for the U.S. Marshal Service said Beers had been brought to Washington County by federal authorities who picked him up at a jail at Lincoln, Neb. He was being held there after a conviction on state charges stemming from a robbery that preceded his recapture last year.
Beers also has charges pending from an escape in Topeka.
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The front passenger's window of a car was broken between 5:30 and 10:20 p.m. Monday in the 1300 block of West Campus Road, Lawrence police reported. Damage was estimated at $200.
Sunglasses valued at $70 were stolen between 11:15 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Monday from a car in lot 100, Alumni Place, KU police reported.
CORRECTION
The University of California-Santa Barbara's mascot was misidentified in a story on page 1B of yesterday's Kansan. The Banana Slugs are the mascot of the University of California-Santa Cruz.
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