2nd Escaped Inmate In Custody After Standoff In Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - A Denver inmate who walked away from a work site is back in police custody.
Adolfo Lopez, 38, was put in handcuffs following a standoff that lasted several hours in a Colorado Springs neighborhood.
According to KKTV in Colorado Springs, a parole office heard that Lopez was holed up in a home near Delta and Hancock streets. Officers responded to the home but Lopez refused to surrender.
Along with El Paso County sheriff's deputies, a SWAT team assisted Colorado Springs police in apprehending Lopez. Witnesses said robots were sent into the home and flash-bangs were heard.
Lopez and fellow inmate Manual Rodriguez, 32, escaped from a work site near a CCI distribution warehouse on Oakland Street in Denver on Thursday.
Lopez was convicted of drug abuse charges out of El Paso County.
Rodriguez was captured Friday. He was convicted of forgery, identity theft and second-degree burglary in of El Paso County.
