Inmate indicted for escape

A federal grand jury in Wichita, Kansas, returned an indictment charging a man with escaping from a federal detention center.

According to court documents, Lee Owen Hallford, 42, is charged with one count of escape from custody.

Hallford is accused of unlawfully leaving the custody of the Bureau of Prisons while at the Residential Reentry Center - Correctional Solution Group, LLC in Wichita. He was detained based on a conviction in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma for assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm in Indian Country.

The U.S. Marshals Service is investigating the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Lanny Welch and Aaron Smith are prosecuting the case.

An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
###