Well, we woke up to some excitement this morning. Bill's fire department radio came on, and we heard someone asking about the lockdown and the roadblocks. So Bill got back on the radio to be brought up to date on what was going on.
Seems an escaped convict, rapist/child molester, had apparently come across Hwy. 4 last night and abandoned the escape vehicle at the Smithville School about 3:30 this morning. School was cancelled for the day, and there were highway patrol cars at our intersection by the Fire Department, down at CJ's Store, at Smithville where Hwy. 4 intersects, and basically the whole area was on lockdown.
The Department of Corrections brought in dogs, we heard aircraft overhead, and there were black and whites all over the place. I just saw about 6 of them speed off toward Smithville, so I don't know if they have a lead or leads, or have found the guy or what. I think he came over from the Cove, AR area. Don't know where he escaped from at this point.
I heard them talk about a door to door search down around Smithville - that seems to be where they are concentrating their efforts right now. The roadblock up here seems to be gone right now. I know the Ag teacher from school found a door to the Ag building open, so they were all over that. I hope that they find him before too long. With all the manpower that's in the area, they should be able to get him, but there's a lot of places for a guy to hide if he wants to.
Guess we'll see what happens the rest of the day. I've got to go down to the post office some time today, so maybe I'll know more from the Postmaster. He's always up on stuff.
So, if I have any followup to this "breaking story", will let you know.
JB
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