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"but I do have a "bull-dog" tendency...

My husband refers to that as "hyper-focusing"...an OCD term, LOL. It's only been suggested that I may be...it runs in my family. But, boy, I sure can get things done in hyper-focus mode :). Too bad more of LE isn't OCD.

Jail Escapee Still On The Loose

Reported by: AP
Web produced by: Liz Foreman
Photographed by: 9News
11/19/02 10:58:58 AM

The Ohio State Highway Patrol chased but failed to capture one of two men who escaped from a Kentucky jail and are suspected in abductions and car thefts.
A trooper broke off the pursuit because he feared another officer had been injured, patrol spokesman Lt. Gary Lewis said. He said authorities statewide are looking for the car.

The other inmate was arrested in Kentucky on Sunday.

The next night, the highway patrol spotted a man believed to be Chadrick Fulks, 25, sleeping in a BMW parked in a rest area in Marion County, in north-central Ohio. The patrol said the trooper noticed that the car had a stolen West Virginia license plate.

Fulks sped off when the trooper ordered him out of the car, the patrol said. Another trooper tried to stop the car by placing spiked strips on the freeway, but the driver crossed the median, nearly striking the trooper, Lewis said.

The pursuing trooper then stopped the chase, believing the other trooper was injured.

"Our officer saw the trooper jumping out of the way of the car and thought that he had been struck," Lewis said. The trooper was not injured.

Fulks and Branden Basham, 21, escaped Nov. 4 from the Hopkins County jail in western Kentucky. They are suspected of abducting a 42-year-old Kentucky man and a 44-year-old South Carolina woman. The man was left bound to a tree and eventually freed himself. The woman, whose BMW was stolen, remains missing.

"Our trooper did not see anyone else in the car but we don't know if there were possible victims or abductions inside the trunk," Lewis said.

Lewis said authorities believe the car is disabled because its underbody was damaged when it crossed the median and it began losing fluids.

Basham, of Hopkins County, Ky., was serving a five-year sentence for writing a bad check. Fulks, of Lewisburg, Ky., was awaiting trial on robbery charges, authorities said.

Basham was taken into custody in Ashland, Ky., after police say he tried to carjack two women in the parking lot of an Ashland mall.

Oh dear... all my husband needs is more fodder for telling me what's wrong... LOL Well, maybe he'll see "hyper-focusing" as a nice term and will quit telling me I'm obsessed with things! ROTFLMAO