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On Friday morning, a prisoner arrested on a warrant for evading arrest and being transported from Colorado to Texas for trial managed to briefly escape his escort officers at Denver International Airport (DEN) and fled onto the tarmac before being apprehended.
The suspect, who local media have identified as Brandon Lee Chabaud, is wanted in Orange County, Texas, for fleeing a Peace Officer in 2019 and was due to be flown to Hayden on a commercial flight operated on behalf of United Airlines. According to several reports, Chabaud somehow managed to escape the custody of Orange County deputies who had flown to Denver to collect their prisoner. Chabaud allegedly managed to sprint down a set of stairs leading onto the tarmac and briefly escaped onto the airfield.
Officers from the Denver Police Department managed to help recatch Chabaud, and he has been taken into federal custody. One of the escorting officers sustained a minor injury during the incident.