John Kaleb Gillespie, 30, was arrested following a crash on Interstate 459 in suburban Birmingham, police said. He had escaped from the Morgan County Jail eight days earlier. Gillespie was accompanied by a 16-year-old girl who left her home in Moulton the day after Gillespie escaped and hadn’t been seen since, authorities said. Sheriff’s officials have said the teen has ties to Gillespie, but they haven’t explained further and the circumstances of her disappearance were unclear. Mike Swafford, a spokesman for the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, said police from Hoover and Bessemer attempted to stop a vehicle and a chase followed.

Source: thestar November 04, 2019 16:52 UTC