HOUSTON / GRIMES COUNTY, Texas (FOX 44) – The man who escaped from the Cross Creek Psychiatric & Addiction Hospital in Austin last week has been apprehended in Houston.
Grimes County inmate McArthur Deashy Mathis was taken into custody at approximately 1:34 p.m. Tuesday, near Interstate 45 and West Road, by the U.S. Marshal’s Gulf Coast Violent Offenders & Fugitive Task Force.
Sheriff Don Sowell says Mathis is being transported back to the Grimes County Jail by members of the Sheriff’s Office’s Investigation and Patrol Division. Sheriff Sowell says the cooperative and tireless efforts of the law enforcement at the Austin Police Department working in unison with the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in Austin also helped lead this manhunt to a successful arrest.
Mathis was originally arrested on January 2 for multiple warrants out of the Victoria Police Department, as well as additional charges out of Grimes County including Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon Causing Serious Bodily Injury to a Family Member, Obstruction or Retaliation, Deadly Conduct, and Burglary of Habitation…