Man Captured On I-70

From the Capital Journal:

The Kansas Highway Patrol arrested a man late Monday afternoon after he ran from a traffic stop along Interstate 70  west of Topeka.

Authorities at the scene said the incident began around 11:15 a.m., when a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper stopped a vehicle that was traveling east on I-70 about a mile west of S.W. Carlson Road in eastern Wabaunsee County.

The man got out of the stopped vehicle and ran to the south, going over a fence and into pastureland that was marked with ravines, bluffs and tree lines.

Additional law enforcement officers, including Kansas Highway Patrol troopers and Shawnee County sheriff’s deputies, responded to assist with the search. A Kansas Highway Patrol K-9 unit also responded to the scene.

Officers set up a perimeter around the area where authorities thought the man ran. He was located about 30 minutes after he fled from the vehicle stop. No injuries were reported.

At least a dozen law enforcement vehicles responded to the incident, with several traveling into the rugged terrain south of I-70 and west of Carlson Road, which serves as the county line at that location between Shawnee County on the east and Wabaunsee County on the west.