Kentucky fugitive found in Seattle 6 weeks after escape from transport service

WARREN COUNTY, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Tennessee man with multiple Warren County arrest warrants returned to Kentucky on Thursday after being found in Seattle.

Sedric Tauric Stevenson, 29, escaped from a third-party prisoner transport service six weeks ago at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to a Facebook post from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office on July 10.

LATEST KENTUCKY NEWS:

  • AG Coleman praises transition of child support services
  • Missing teen may be in northern Kentucky under an alias
  • Longest-serving Franklin County sheriff, former judge executive, passes away

Deputies wrote that the local US Marshals Service worked with law enforcement in Seattle, as well as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), to find Stevenson.

After he was found, law enforcement began the 21-hour journey that consisted of four time zone changes to return Stevenson to the Bluegrass State.

According to court documents, Stevenson was arrested on Thursday and lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail in connection with a warrant for another police agency, as well as two warrants for failure to appear in court and two out-of-county fugitive charges, which do not require warrants, per jail records…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS