Escaped inmate arrested after home invasion

A man charged in connection with an armed robbery in Gruetli-Laager broke out of Grundy County Jail just 48 hours after being detained. Palmer resident Charles James Campbell, who is also known as Rusty, was taken into custody on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 18. Officers allege that he was the man on Sept. 17 surveillance camera footage wielding a handgun to rob Town Mart and steal the cashier’s vehicle. On Friday evening, Campbell supposedly climbed the jail’s recreation yard fence and took off on foot prompting a large-scale hunt.

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