(Walnut) A man who escaped the Sac County Jail last week was arrested in Walnut Tuesday evening.
The Sac County Sheriff’s Office says at around 6:30 p.m., Pottawattamie County Deputies arrested Shawn Freier at a residence in Walnut. Freier was in an upstairs area of a garage. He was taken into custody without incident and transported to the Pottawattamie County Jail and will be transported to the Sac County Jail today.
Joseph Sly and Shawn Freier escaped the Sac County jail on Friday October 9, 2020 around 4:30 p.m. Sly was located the following morning in Sac City. Both men are now charged with escape from custody, assault while participating in a felony and assault on persons in a certain occupation. Joseph Sly in currently being held in the Buena Vista County jail.
Background:
According to the Sac County Sheriff’s Office press release, two inmates identified as 35-year old Joseph Lee Sly of Rockwell City, and 25-year old Shawn Patrick Freier of Lake View overpowered a female correctional officer, at around 4:25 p.m. on Friday afternoon. Freier and Sly pulled the correctional officer into the main cell block and shut the door locking the correctional officer inside. The fleeing inmates ran down the stairwell and exited. Law enforcement officers from surrounding areas responded to assist with the search. Officers deployed a drone with thermal imaging capabilities and the Sac County Sheriff’s K-9. The ground search was called off after dark.
