A few months after a man was seen attacking a King County Metro bus with a machete, he’s now missing after King County prosecutors say he walked away from an in-custody treatment facility.
The King County Prosecutor’s Office says Daniel Couch escaped from Electronic Home Detention (EHD) over the weekend, and they’re now working with law enforcement to bring him back into custody. EHD is a court-ordered or pretrial alternative to jail that lets defendants serve time at home while wearing an electronic tracking device (such as a GPS ankle bracelet).
Seattle police say in July, Daniel Couch tried to board a bus near 4th Avenue South and Jackson Street, but the driver didn’t let him on because he recognized Couch from a previous machete incident…