Oklahoma escaped inmate caught in Meridian

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) -An escaped inmate from Oklahoma was arrested within the metropolis of Meridian Tuesday night time by the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Division.

31-year-old Tyler Charles Payne was taken into custody at a Meridian waffle home.

Chief Deputy Ward Calhoun stated authorities had been alerted after a automotive was discovered deserted on the aspect of Freeway 45 and Causeyville Highway.

Deputies ran the tag, which got here again stolen out of Hinds County.

Calhoun stated authorities had been alerted that he may be at a neighborhood restaurant and that’s the place he was arrested.

“It was lucky that we had been in a position to take him into custody and we didn’t have one other sufferer in our neighborhood as a result of he was seeking to get a automobile and get away. Hats off to the women and men of the Sheriff’s Division and the Meridian Police Division who labored collectively to take this particular person again into custody and ensure he goes again to Oklahoma. We don’t need to put up with him round,” stated Calhoun.

Payne was dealing with assault and battery with a harmful weapon, resisting arrest, carjacking, and eluding.

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