Slippery inmate faces charges for crimes during escape
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A man who escaped from the Douglas County Jail in a trash can was charged Wednesday with crimes that occurred when he was on the lam.
Thomas Ivan Grimes pleaded not guilty in Lane County Circuit Court to charges that included assault, possession of a stolen vehicle and attempting to elude police.
The Register-Guard reports the 32-year-old Springfield man was arrested by a SWAT team in July in Springfield after he had twice slipped away from pursuing officers in the weeks following his escape from jail in Roseburg.
Grimes pleaded guilty in Douglas County to the June escape and other charges and was sentenced in September to more than seven years in prison.
He hid in a trash can that was dumped outside the jail by inmate workers.
Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
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Garbage in garbage out.
He's lucky that the garbage wasn't picked up in a trash-compacting truck before he escaped.
 @OSUx2 Bummer, that would have saved taxpayers a lot of money.
Hmmm... not someone I'd want to meet in a dark alley, for sure..! Â Â
@margay1 Just the kind of person I would like to meet in a dark alley! He should be afraid of the responsible citizen, not the opposite!
This guy has escaped twice now? Think you might want to put a little better security on him?
Right now, I don't even know if that's a face that only a mother could love, that's a pretty rough looking face.
atleast he got part of it right, putting himself in the trash where he belongs