ASHLAND — A prisoner who escaped while being transported through north central Ohio was captured Sunday morning by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Said Ali El-Khatib, wearing a waist chain and shackled on one ankle when he escaped at a rest area on I-71 Friday around 9 p.m. near mile marker 197 in Wayne County.
The prisoner was found by troopers from the Ashland Post Sunday just before 6 a.m. near U.S. 250 and I-71 after someone called in a tip about a suspicious person.
The 32-year-old El-Khatib was being moved from New York to Indiana by a private extradition company when he asked to use the bathroom at a rest stop. When he got out of the van, he took off into the woods.
A press conference has been scheduled for 10 a.m. regarding the apprehension.
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