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Tensas Parish inmate escapes, steals car

Published 12:13am Friday, July 13, 2012

WATERPROOF — A Tensas Parish Detention Center inmate stole a police car Thursday night and escaped from the facility.

Tensas Parish Sheriff Rickey Jones said Benjamin Gottke, 43, left the facility’s kitchen where he was working about 9 p.m. and stole a back-up patrol car.

“He evidently had a key to the yard (to get outside of the facility),” Jones said.

Jones said Gottke stole a white unmarked Ford Crown Victoria with a public license plate.

Gottke, Jones said, is a white male, who is 5-foot-11 and weighs 213 pounds.

Jones said Gottke has an ID from Houma, La., and a driver’s license from Scott, La., and could have been headed that way.

Jones said he was not sure for what Gottke’s was serving time. Jones said Gottke had only about nine months left on his sentence and was soon going to be eligible for work release.

As of press time, Gottke was still at large.

Anyone with information should call the Tensas Parish Sheriff’s Office at 318-766-3961.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3NUHDPCVEBJXQWUCJMXL7ENB6E Steve

    it would be good to know under what charge was he in jail????  so we should know if he is a dangerous criminal

  • Anonymous

    good grief..

  • Anonymous

    whats next around here? Looks like the 30 mile circles got to be extended.

  • Anonymous

     How about a photo of him? That would help

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/CNEGJEREYHUI5BRK2QOT4GXCNI Big

    That is what happens when you give them a mile, heck if on work release he still would have ran most likely.  Check to see what had been going on in his life, girlfriend, wife, parents sick, any kids??   This might would help to find him.  Rrcorded conversations??  come on now start looking.,

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