A man convicted of attempted capital murder who escaped Tuesday is now back in custody. Dallas County Sheriff Donny Ford says Jacario Cranford, 19, is back in the Dallas County jail after calling Little Rock police and turning himself in Wednesday afternoon. Ford says Little Rock officers picked him up at a girlfriends house.
Cranford escaped from Dallas County while riding on the back of a truck returning to jail after working a trash detail in the county. The driver was a county employee, not an officer. Ford tells us Cranford worked the trash truck for the past month and decided to make Cranford a trustee despite his involvement in what he describes as a drug deal gone bad.
"We probably won't make anymore people with that kind of charge a trustee anymore. That's probably the only one I ever made a trustee," says Sheriff Donny Ford.
Cranford was sentenced on October 7, 2009 in Dallas County Circuit Court to 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections for Attempted Capital Murder and Aggravated Robbery. Ford says he probably would've only served 2 and a half years. He is now facing felony escape charges and is expected to be in court Friday morning.
