Wichita work release inmate back in custody
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An inmate who failed to return to a Wichita work release facility during the weekend is back in custody. Forty-eight-year-old Pete Vazquez had been declared an escapee early Sunday. The Kansas Department of Corrections says he was apprehended late Monday morning. Details of the apprehension were not immediately released. The Corrections Department said Vazquez failed to return the Wichita Work Release Center from his job with a construction company Saturday evening. Department spokesman Jan Lunsford says employers often call the facility to ask that release inmates stay longer. He says somebody called on Vazquez's behalf but it wasn't his work supervisor. KAKE-TV reports Vazquez was serving a sentence in a Finney County theft case. He had been at the work release facility since early February.