An ex-marine who jumped out of a bathroom window at the Grant County, Ok. jail as he was being taken to an Oklahoma Corrections facility Thursday morning was captured in Arkansas.
Joshua Roy Albright, 23, fled in a sheriff’s department truck after climbing out of the unsecured window. He was taken in custody in Johnson County, Ark., about 60 miles east of the Oklahoma state line. Grant County is just south of Sumner County, Kan.
Albright was convicted of first-degree robbery for a 2006 crime in which he and another man robbed and terrorized a 72-year old blind woman from the Lamont area. Albright and Thomas Jackson Childs, 19, held Collins down in her bed and threatened to blow her knee caps off if she told police what happened that night.
Albright was given two 20 year consecutive prison sentences. Deputies were preparing to transport him to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections reception center in Lexington when he was given permission to go to an unsecured ground-floor restroom about 5 a.m. Thursday.