The 24-year-old man who ran from the Washington County Courthouse after being sentenced earlier this month is not the first person to flee the building — and is the third such case in the past three years.
Elijah Carrillo-Saucedo was charged with second-degree escape after running from the courtroom Dec. 10, moments after a judge revoked his probation and sentenced him to more than four years in prison on a 2022 assault case.
Video released by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office shows Carrillo-Saucedo hugging a family member and then bolting from the courtroom before court security deputies arrived to take him into custody…