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Authorities receive tip, arrest fugitive in Maine
BY CARL BURNETT JR. • The Eagle-Gazette Staff • March 2, 2010
LANCASTER -- A tip led to the capture of the man who walked out of Fairfield County courthouse and then fled to Maine.
Jonathan Hurst, 22, is being detained in the York County Jail in Alfred, Maine, awaiting extradition after he was arrested
Sunday.
Maine's Sanford police Sgt. Tim Strout said Hurst was arrested at 12:38 p.m. Sunday without incident.
"We had received a tip that he had been staying at a home on Welch Lane," Strout said.
Hurst was indicted Oct. 30 by a Fairfield County grand jury on 10 charges, including two counts of burglary, four counts
of theft of a firearm, with firearm specifications, and four counts of receiving stolen property. The charges stemmed from
burglaries in the Sugar Grove area. After the indictments, Hurst left the area and an arrest warrant was issued.
The Fairfield County Prosecutor's Office and Lancaster police in a sting operation in December lured Hurst and his wife,
Maria, to travel from Vermont to Lancaster to meet with a person posing as an elderly woman.
The woman said she had $2,000 for them and Christmas gifts for the couple's two children in the wake of a fire that
destroyed the Hursts' apartment, authorities said. On Dec. 22, the Hursts arrived at Tim Hortons on Memorial Drive and
were met by police, and Jonathan Hurst was taken into custody.
Fairfield County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Berens set bond at $25,000, along with a $10,000 recognizance
bond for Hurst, 22, in January. Hurst also had been ordered to wear a location-tracking ankle bracelet.
After a bail bondsman posted the bond at the Fairfield County Clerk of Courts office, a miscommunication between the
sheriff's deputies and the probation department left him unattended for a few minutes while arrangements were made to
get an ankle bracelet.
Hurst walked out of the courthouse without the ankle bracelet. Another arrest warrant was issued after he failed to come
to his next scheduled court appearance in February.
His disappearance caused court and law-enforcement officials to review their procedures in handling similar cases.
They said individuals will not be left unattended until all conditions of a court ordered bond are met.
Fairfield County Assistant Prosecutor Erin R. McLaughlin said authorities are waiting for the extradition paperwork to be
completed and then Fairfield County law-enforcement officials were going to get him and bring him back to Fairfield
County.
McLaughlin said Fairfield County authorities had been working with law enforcement authorities in Maine.
"We had a feeling he might have been headed in that direction," McLaughlin said. "We are grateful for the work of the
Sanford Police Department for bringing him in."
McLaughlin said when Hurst returns to Ohio he would most likely be charged with an additional count of failure to
appear.
Carl Burnett Jr. can be reached at (740) 681-4346 or cburnett@ nncogannett.com.
BY CARL BURNETT JR. • The Eagle-Gazette Staff • March 2, 2010
LANCASTER -- A tip led to the capture of the man who walked out of Fairfield County courthouse and then fled to Maine.
Jonathan Hurst, 22, is being detained in the York County Jail in Alfred, Maine, awaiting extradition after he was arrested
Sunday.
Maine's Sanford police Sgt. Tim Strout said Hurst was arrested at 12:38 p.m. Sunday without incident.
"We had received a tip that he had been staying at a home on Welch Lane," Strout said.
Hurst was indicted Oct. 30 by a Fairfield County grand jury on 10 charges, including two counts of burglary, four counts
of theft of a firearm, with firearm specifications, and four counts of receiving stolen property. The charges stemmed from
burglaries in the Sugar Grove area. After the indictments, Hurst left the area and an arrest warrant was issued.
The Fairfield County Prosecutor's Office and Lancaster police in a sting operation in December lured Hurst and his wife,
Maria, to travel from Vermont to Lancaster to meet with a person posing as an elderly woman.
The woman said she had $2,000 for them and Christmas gifts for the couple's two children in the wake of a fire that
destroyed the Hursts' apartment, authorities said. On Dec. 22, the Hursts arrived at Tim Hortons on Memorial Drive and
were met by police, and Jonathan Hurst was taken into custody.
Fairfield County Common Pleas Court Judge Richard Berens set bond at $25,000, along with a $10,000 recognizance
bond for Hurst, 22, in January. Hurst also had been ordered to wear a location-tracking ankle bracelet.
After a bail bondsman posted the bond at the Fairfield County Clerk of Courts office, a miscommunication between the
sheriff's deputies and the probation department left him unattended for a few minutes while arrangements were made to
get an ankle bracelet.
Hurst walked out of the courthouse without the ankle bracelet. Another arrest warrant was issued after he failed to come
to his next scheduled court appearance in February.
His disappearance caused court and law-enforcement officials to review their procedures in handling similar cases.
They said individuals will not be left unattended until all conditions of a court ordered bond are met.
Fairfield County Assistant Prosecutor Erin R. McLaughlin said authorities are waiting for the extradition paperwork to be
completed and then Fairfield County law-enforcement officials were going to get him and bring him back to Fairfield
County.
McLaughlin said Fairfield County authorities had been working with law enforcement authorities in Maine.
"We had a feeling he might have been headed in that direction," McLaughlin said. "We are grateful for the work of the
Sanford Police Department for bringing him in."
McLaughlin said when Hurst returns to Ohio he would most likely be charged with an additional count of failure to
appear.
Carl Burnett Jr. can be reached at (740) 681-4346 or cburnett@ nncogannett.com.