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An update to the post from Saturday (with the funniest news story in a long time):
Escapee suspected of stealing bus arrested
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – An escaped prisoner who evaded a manhunt across the Southeast by stealing three vehicles, including singer Crystal Gayle’s tour bus, has been arrested, authorities said.
Christopher Daniel Gay, 32, was arrested around 11 p.m. Friday at the Daytona International Speedway where he had been watching a race,said Lt.Patrick Myers,spokesman for Daytona Beach Police. Gay escaped from a prisoner transport van on Jan. 21 Sunday near Hardeeville, S.C., police said. Authorities have said his motivefor fleeing was to see his terminally ill mother; it was unclear whether he ever made it there.
Authorities suspect Gay of stealing a pickup truck in South Carolina, and then the cab of a tractor-trailer in Georgia. He allegedly drove to Manchester, Tenn., where on Monday he hooked the cab to a Wal-Mart trailer filled with $300,000 in merchandise and took off again, police said. He abandoned the rig within 50 yards of his mother’s house north of Nashville and fled into a wooded area after Tennessee authorities spotted the truck Tuesday, police said. He was spotted Thursday night driving a tour bus at USA International Speedway in Lakeland, but drove off after speedway officials became suspicious and asked him for identification, police said.
Escapee suspected of stealing bus arrested
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – An escaped prisoner who evaded a manhunt across the Southeast by stealing three vehicles, including singer Crystal Gayle’s tour bus, has been arrested, authorities said.
Christopher Daniel Gay, 32, was arrested around 11 p.m. Friday at the Daytona International Speedway where he had been watching a race,said Lt.Patrick Myers,spokesman for Daytona Beach Police. Gay escaped from a prisoner transport van on Jan. 21 Sunday near Hardeeville, S.C., police said. Authorities have said his motivefor fleeing was to see his terminally ill mother; it was unclear whether he ever made it there.
Authorities suspect Gay of stealing a pickup truck in South Carolina, and then the cab of a tractor-trailer in Georgia. He allegedly drove to Manchester, Tenn., where on Monday he hooked the cab to a Wal-Mart trailer filled with $300,000 in merchandise and took off again, police said. He abandoned the rig within 50 yards of his mother’s house north of Nashville and fled into a wooded area after Tennessee authorities spotted the truck Tuesday, police said. He was spotted Thursday night driving a tour bus at USA International Speedway in Lakeland, but drove off after speedway officials became suspicious and asked him for identification, police said.
