Issue date: 11/1/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Associated Press Photo Public Information Officer for El Dorado Correctional Facility Bill Miskell, left, speaks to reporters during a press conference at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in El Dorado, Kan. Wednesday, Oct. 31.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A pair of fugitives from a Kansas prison and a female former guard accused of helping them flee were captured in New Mexico early Wednesday. The guard apparently had a relationship with one of the men.

The two inmates, Steven A. Ford and Jesse L. Bell, and former guard Amber Goff were taken into custody early Wednesday in Grants, about 75 miles west of Albuquerque, after one of the escapees shot at police, said Detective Moses Marquez of the Grants Police Department.

Ford and Bell escaped Sunday night from a recreation yard at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, near Wichita. Goff, 23, worked at the facility from September 2006 until this month. A vehicle traced to Goff that was found 15 miles away contained items linked to the escape, prison officials said.

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