KCSO: 2nd Kootenai County escapee caught in Washington

KCSO news release from Detective Dennis Stinebaugh:

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office and the Yakima County Corrections Center are pleased to announce that escapee Steven D. Roche is now in custody. According to the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office, Roche was arrested around 3 a.m. Wednesday in the Tacoma-Olympia area by members of the Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force. After receiving tips from the public on Roche’s location, members of the task force set up surveillance at a hotel and he was subsequently taken into custody. The Yakima County Sheriff’s Office has not released the specific location of Roche’s arrest. More information may be provided later today by Yakima County Sheriff’s Office.

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