ESCAPED INMATE FROM LEON CO. JAIL ARRESTED IN BRENHAM

  

An escapee from the Leon County Jail was taken into custody this (Thursday) morning in Brenham.

36-year-old Kevin Kahler was arrested after the Brenham Police Department’s Crime Reduction Unit received a tip around 10 a.m. from the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force that he was possibly in the city.

At 11:30 a.m., Kahler was taken into custody without incident at the Knights Inn hotel on a warrant for his escape from the jail, where he was being held for Burglary of a Building.  He was left in the custody of the task force for transport, and is back in the Leon County Jail.

Kahler had been on the run for nearly a week after the Leon County Sheriff’s Office said he escaped last Friday while part of a work detail with another escapee, 33-year-old Kevin Webb.  According to the Sheriff’s Office, the two stole a Leon County Precinct 2 truck and drove to Conroe, where authorities say another vehicle was stolen.

Webb, who was in jail for felony Possession of a Controlled Substance and misdemeanor Evading Arrest, was later involved in a chase in Anderson County, where officials say he ran into a DPS Trooper’s vehicle.

According to Deputy U.S. Marshal Alfredo Perez, a magistrate judge held court in the hotel room where Kahler was arrested in order to immediately extradite him back to Leon County.

Webb was taken into custody this afternoon in Hot Springs, Arkansas, after law enforcement there received tips from the public that he was in the area.