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Inmate escapes work detail in Saline County

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Timothy Berthelson, inmate escaped from work detail

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Updated: 5/16/2012 4:10 pm

Published: 5/16/2012 4:08 pm

BENTON, AR – Authorities are looking for an escaped inmate who walked away from his work detail Wednesday afternoon.

The Saline County Sheriff’s Office says that Timothy Berthelson was a trustee working at the courthouse. He walked away from this work detail around 3:00pm.

Berthelson is 46-years-old, 6’4” tall, 200lbs, with shoulder-length hair and balding on top and a gray beard. He was last seen wearing orange pants, white t-shirt, and a camouflage hat.

According to the Saline County Sheriff’s Office website, Berthelson was in jail on misdemeanor failure to appear charges.

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lizz1972 - 5/18/2012 1:38 PM

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He is my 18 yr old sons father. He owes over $30,000 in back child support and has a felony warrent for this. He should have never been a trustee. He should have been locked up and not been given so much slack.

1gmama - 5/17/2012 3:09 PM

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He used to be married to one of my friends, straight druggie and drunk must to have fried his brain.

backinaction - 5/17/2012 7:29 AM

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What a total dumbass. He wouldnt be in jail long for a FTA, but now you can add escape to it. Smart, real freaking smart.

the badest - 5/17/2012 5:48 AM

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omg this is my moms ex boyfriend from like years and years ago. he beat her all the time broke her neck and toes. i hope u rot in hell. for doing that to my mom. i hope they find him and put him in the pin.

amberjack - 5/17/2012 5:06 AM

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46? Looks 56, that meth has been hard on the ol boy

trapper - 5/16/2012 4:46 PM

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I wonder what the Failure to appear was for

theITguy - 5/16/2012 4:29 PM

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From misdemeanor FTA charges...to five years straight in the pen. This guy couldn't have been thinking at all.