Eakin had escaped from work release center over the weekend

 

SOUTH DAKOTA — Jake Eakin, who was convicted for taking part in the murder of an Ephrata boy over 10 years ago, was caught Tuesday in South Dakota after escaping from a work release center in Yakima.

The Washington Department of Corrections Community Response Unit, in partnership with the US Marshals Service’s Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force, gathered information that Eakin, 25, was traveling east on a bus. The task force made contact with Eakin at a bus stop and he was apprehended in Rapid City, S.D. He is now in jail in Rapid City and will extradited back to Washington, where his unauthorized leave from the Ahtanum View Work Release Center in Yakima and arrest in South Dakota will be sent to the Yakima County Prosecutor’s Office for consideration of charges. The DOC stated he will be returning to a corrections center in Shelton.

For more information, read Wednesday's Columbia Basin Herald.