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Escaped inmate turns himself in at Arkansas bar, has a beer

Escaped inmate turns himself in at Arkansas bar, has a beer | iNFOnews.ca
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PARIS, Ark. – An inmate who escaped a northwestern Arkansas jail, showed up at a nearby bar a week later, ordered a beer and declared he was turning himself in.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/29kAAXt ) that 45-year-old Shaun Higham turned up Tuesday night at Mitch’s Place in Paris, about 6 miles from the Logan County Jail. He was wearing a dirty prison uniform and covered in insect bites.

Logan County Sheriff Boyd Hicks says there had been no sightings of Higham since he picked a lock and fled the county jail on June 28.

The bar’s owner called police, saying Higham was there and that he wanted to turn himself in. Higham was drinking a beer when police arrived. He surrendered without incident.

Paris is about 90 miles northwest of Little Rock.

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Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, http://www.arkansasonline.com

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