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Escapee From SD Jail Taken Into Custody

A man who escaped from the Huron, South Dakota jail early Tuesday has been found in in Sioux Falls.

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A man who escaped from the Huron, South Dakota jail early Tuesday has been found in in Sioux Falls.

Sioux Falls police Sgt. David Osterquist says Charles Beeney was taken into custody at about 6:40 p.m. Tuesday.

Beeney's escape from jail prompted Huron schools to go on lockdown status as a precaution.

The 45-year-old Beeney is originally from Lansing, Kan.

He was arrested last December on an aggravated eluding charge after leading law officers from five counties and the South Dakota Highway Patrol on a chase through Jerauld County.

The chase ended when he crashed the pickup truck he had stolen in North Dakota.

Beeney in 2006 was sentenced to five years in the North Dakota State Penitentiary for stealing a pickup and escaping from the Richland County Jail.

(Photo Credit: Beadle County Sheriff's Office)