PORTLAND, Ore. — Authorities say a murder suspect who was mistakenly released from jail earlier this week has been taken back into custody after a multi-day manhunt that stretched across Oregon.
Mistaken Release Sparks Outrage
Ty Anthony Sage, 26, was accidentally released Monday from the Multnomah County Detention Center after posting bail — a decision Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell later called a “monumental mistake.”
“Ty Sage should never have been able to post bail,” O’Donnell said in a press release. “Lowgunn’s family deserved better.”
Sage faces second-degree murder and first-degree robbery charges in connection with the 2021 killing of 15-year-old Lowgunn Ivey. He and co-defendant Kevin Rivas-Ramirez, 26, were arrested in May.
Recaptured in Florence
On Thursday around 1 p.m., Sage was arrested at a gas station off Highway 101 in Florence, roughly 180 miles from Portland. The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force assisted with the arrest, according to the sheriff’s office…