• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A Kansas man who broke out of jail for the second time in seven years Tuesday was found and arrested about 125 miles away in Sioux Falls, S.D., authorities said.
• Charles Beeney, 45, had escaped earlier in the day from a jail in Huron, S.D., where he'd been held since leading police on a chase in December. He was taken into custody without incident about 6:40 p.m. after authorities received at least two calls about possible sightings, Sioux Falls police Sgt. David Osterquist said in a statement. Beeney was located inside a truck that had been associated with him, Osterquist said.
• Beeney broke out of a county jail in North Dakota about seven years ago and later made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the State Penitentiary.
• His latest escape came while Beeney was outside his cell on cleaning detail about 12:30 a.m., when he accosted a guard with a makeshift gun, Solem said. Guards did not get a good look at the hand-made weapon but evidence found later in Beeney's cell indicated it might have been made from materials such as a metal tube and rubber bands, he said.
• "This guy, he had been in prison for 20 years. He's real resourceful," Solem said. "If the thing actually worked, who knows? But it was enough to make our guard believe it would work."
• Solem said Beeney produced a .45-caliber bullet, handed it to the guard and then told the guard he had another bullet in the makeshift gun and would kill him if the guard did not let him go.
• Another guard confronted Beeney, who had his weapon held to the first guard's stomach, Solem said.
• "It's kind of like a bank robbery -- when somebody has a gun pointed at you, you do what you've got to do," the sheriff said. "The guard released him."
• Beeney had been in the jail since Dec. 3, when he was arrested following a chase with law enforcement officers from five counties and the South Dakota High

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