Update: The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Department has captured the escaped inmate.
At about 12:30 AM Saturday, Jon Adrian Getzlaff, 24, of Wamego, was taken back into custody by the Sheriff’s Department.
Getzlaff was captured in Westmoreland.
Below is our story from earlier Friday.
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The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Department is seeking an inmate who escaped from the Pottawatomie County detention facility’s exercise yard shortly after 9 a.m. Friday. Jon Adrian Getzlaff, 24, of Wamego is described as 5’4″, weighing about 150 pounds, with short hair and scruffy facial hair. He was last seen wearing a grey t-shirt with a word like “relax” on it and black and white striped pants. Getzlaff was being held on a variety of drug-related charges and had been confined since March 30th.
Anyone with information is asked to contact their local law enforcement authorities, with the Pottawatomie County sheriff’s number of 457-3353, or Riley County Police at 537-2112, or the Crimestoppers line at 539-7777.