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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. – Deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) have located one of two juveniles who escaped from a transport van while en route to a detention facility Thursday.
Through several leads, investigators found that 15-year-old Ryan Santos made it to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he was apprehended by the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.
Law enforcement officials in Virginia were notified to be on the lookout for Santos in a vehicle. He was apprehended and placed in a Frederick County Sheriff’s Office cruiser and handcuffed behind the back, according to a news release.
While the officer went back to help deputies with the other occupants of the vehicle, Santos was allegedly seen a short time later driving away in the cruiser.
Another deputy pursued him and he was eventually stopped with assistance from Virginia State Police. He was removed from the stolen cruiser and transported to Winchester Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Santos was charged in connection with a drive-by shooting that happened Monday on Northridge Drive. He is also being charged with aggravated burglary, possession of a weapon, six counts of reckless endangerment and aggravated assault and escape.
ORIGINAL STORY: The two juveniles were being transported from court back to Middle Tennessee Juvenile Detention by a correctional officer with the facility.
Jamie Dexter, Interim Public Information Officer for MCSO, said around 1 p.m., passersby called 911 when the juveniles jumped from the back window of the transport van at the stoplight at state routes 48 and 149 in Montgomery County. Deputies set up a perimeter and K9 deputies searched the area.
Deputy Eric Trout with K9 Fuse, Investigator Geoff Blanchard, and Deputy Casey Bohn searched a nearby wooded area where the first juvenile gave up when he heard the dog combing the area. He was taken into custody without incident.
(Ryan Santos charged in Northridge Drive drive-by shooting)
Deputies search an area behind a body shop on Highway 48 for a juvenile who escaped custody from a Middle Tennessee Juvenile Detention transport./Jamie Dexter