The Dakota County Sheriff's Office is investigating how a man was able to slip away from two sheriff's deputies who were trying to transport him from Georgia to Minnesota last week.
According to a news release from the Dakota County Sheriff's Office, two deputies went to Georgia on Thursday to arrest Joseph Harrison Baynes, 35, who has been charged in connection with a felony harassment case.
Baynes was in custody at a Georgia jail, and the two Dakota County deputies took custody of him just before noon Thursday. But on the way to an airport in Savannah, Ga., Baynes escaped.
The deputies and government agencies at all levels spent more than a day looking for Baynes in the woods near the Savannah airport. Baynes was taken into custody Friday afternoon. No one was hurt.
Dakota County officials did not explain how Baynes was able to slip away from the two deputies, saying only that the incident was under investigation.
