MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
a division of the
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Troop F Headquarters - 2920 North Shamrock Road - Jefferson City, MO 65109


News Release

For further information please contact: Sgt. Jerry Callahan
(573) 751-1000
August 9, 2012
120802

EMPHASIS: Manhunt For Escapee Ends With Apprehension


Captain Gregory D. Kindle, commanding officer of Troop F, Jefferson City, MO, announces involvement by the Highway Patrol and eight other law enforcement agencies in the apprehension of three escaped prisoners. At 6:55 a.m., Highway Patrol Troop F communications received information that a Pettis County deputy was overpowered by a prisoner at a rest stop near the 104-mile marker on Interstate 70 in Cooper County. The prisoner, identified as Ronald W. Greer Jr., 44, was one of three prisoners being transported to facilities in Fulton and Vandalia. After overpowering the deputy, Greer fled in a marked Pettis County Sheriff's Department patrol car with the two other prisoners confined in the rear seat of the police car. The escapees were located and pursued in Howard County by the Boonville Police Department and Patrol aircraft. Greer drove the vehicle into a field near Missouri Highway K and Missouri Highway 87.

Greer fled on foot from the vehicle, and the remaining two prisoners were taken into custody without incident. Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers, aircraft, SWAT, and officers from Pettis County Sheriff's Department, Howard County Sheriff's Department, Boone County Sheriff's Department, Cooper County Sheriff's Department, Boonville Police Department, Fayette Police Department, Glasgow Police Department, and New Franklin Police Department were involved in the manhunt. At 9:50 a.m., the Patrol aircraft located Greer. Troopers took Greer into custody and then released him to the Pettis County Sheriff's Department. The Pettis County deputy injured in the escape was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and released.


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