Authorities arrested an inmate who briefly escaped the Dimond Courthouse in downtown Juneau on Wednesday afternoon.
Talon B. Lobaugh, 23, was on the ground floor of the courthouse with an armed Alaska State Troopers’ court security officer waiting for an elevator when Lobaugh made a dash for a back door, setting off alarms in the building, according to Alaska State Troopers Judicial Services clerk Richard Millay.
“He was getting brought up through the back,” Millay said. “Next thing, he got on the elevator, and he made a break for the door.”
At least two court security officers sprinted out the back door of the courthouse to pursue him. That led the officers to the city parking garage on Main Street. Juneau Police Department officers in marked police cruisers joined in the pursuit to assist after receiving the initial call at 2:50 p.m.
Lobaugh was arrested shirtless by JPD officers a few minutes later at about 3:07 p.m. on a hillside at Main Street near the State Office Building. Before his arrest, Lobaugh was donning an orange jumpsuit and his hands were handcuffed in the front.
“He was trying to remove his jumpsuit to take it off,” when he was located by an officer, JPD Lt. David Campbell said in a phone interview.
Lobaugh had already appeared in court at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday for an arraignment on the charge of resisting and interfering with an arrest. He was awaiting a second court hearing when he fled.
Campbell said it wasn’t the first time Lobaugh fled from authorities — he did the same thing when he was being arrested Tuesday night.
He was arrested then on an outstanding $5,000 Alaska State Troopers’ warrant when an off-duty JPD officer spotted him in the area of Mount Roberts Street. The warrant was for failing to comply with conditions of probation stemming from six counts of second-degree forgery and two counts of second-degree theft.
The off-duty JPD officer notified police, and Lobaugh fled on foot when responding police officers arrived on scene. He was caught in about nine minutes, Campbell said.
“He ran from us last night. He ran from us today. He got caught both times,” Campbell said.
Just before Wednesday’s courthouse escape, Lobaugh was being held in one of the Alaska State Troopers’ Judicial Services holding cells, located on the ground floor of the courthouse.
He was being escorted to Juneau Superior Court Judge Louis Menendez’ courtroom on the second floor of the building to answer to the charge of violating probation in the 2008 forgery case.
JPD returned Lobaugh to the custody of the Judicial Services office after the incident.
It was not immediately known if any new charges were filed.
Lobaugh apparently suffered some minor lacerations to his back during the pursuit. Campbell said he also was complaining of wrist pain.
Campbell said this was only the second time in 17 years that he can remember an inmate escaping from the courthouse.
• Contact reporter Emily Russo Miller at 523-2263 or at emily.miller@juneauempire.com.
Comments (34)
Add commentThis guy is obviously not the
This guy is obviously not the brightest light in the harbor. I hope the people at the prison send him to bed without any peach cobbler.
Where you going?
If he could have only got the jump suit off then he would have just looked like an ordinary guy walking around in his underwear and hand cuffs, would have never been noticed. Wake up rabbit and start working towards a better life.
Washington
Washington State has the Barefoot Bandit, now we have our Shirtless Bandit.
Grim
Grim, you would have shot an unarmed man in handcuffs? Perhaps your last name is Zimmerman...
Fool me once...
“He ran from us last night. He ran from us today. He got caught both times,” Campbell said.
So...if he ran once...why no foot shackles? SMH.
Taze him bro!
You'd think they would shackel his ankles by now. Maybe Lobaugh was trying to plea his case to make the LCC adult hide and go seek squad.
@michaelh2001
Zimmerman will be found innocent.
Some girls got all hot and bothered
I was talking to some girls who were impressed with the shirtless photo. I guess since he is "only' a thief, and has a nice body they found him to be sexy. Interesting how the logic works when it comes to primal response.
I have a problem with this:
"Talon B. Lobaugh, 23, was on the ground floor of the courthouse with an armed Alaska State Troopers’ court security officer waiting for an elevator when Lobaugh made a dash for a back door".
I have a problem with this:
"Talon B. Lobaugh, 23, was on the ground floor of the courthouse with an armed Alaska State Troopers’ court security officer waiting for an elevator when Lobaugh made a dash for a back door".
Leg Shackles
Leg shackles are used in many jurisdictions all over the country to help prevent this very thing and it actually protects the offender and LEO from getting injured in a chase.
Some of these people have serious mental impairment from chronic drug abuse or organic mental illness and what might not make sense to us (i.e., fleeing in handcuffs and orange jump suit) makes perfect sense to them. Eliminate the opportunity for this to happen...shackle them.
Michealh 2001
Your so typical.
You take a brief sentence by grimm and then twist it to fit your agenda.
No one said they would shoot an unarmed person in handcuffs he said he may have shot an escaping convict who had not yet been captured. And you probably cant figure it out but even in handcuffs he could hurt someone and/or he could remove them later.
Then you compared it to the Zimmerman issue. 1) you know nothing of that issue except what youve read in biased media. 2) There are two sides to that story 3) people like you are one of the reasons there are innocents in prison and guiltys running around loose.
This happened before....
remember the guy who dashed from the elevator in the courthouse then hid downtown and wasn't found til the next day hiding under someone's house?
Let's learn a lesson......load the people in the elevator FACING THE BACK like they do in every jail in the country!!
@slegnawons: Grim advocated
@slegnawons: Grim advocated killing an unarmed convict. Escaped or not, he was not a convicted killer, he wasn't escaping to go kill or hurt anyone, and he was handcuffed. If you think killing someone like this is okay, then fine, but don't pretend you're a civilized human being. We already know Grim isn't.
Anyone who thinks they can just kill another human being without it affecting them ($.32 solution! Derp!) is either a full-fledged sociopath who needs to be locked up, or a naive little teenager who plays too many video games.
Notice this guy is holding up
Notice this guy is holding up the peace sign! and to run not once but twice! that is just unbelieveable! they should have learned from the first time!
like they say fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me!
Grim:
Grim, I would like to know where you can buy .32 cent rounds. As a re-loader I can’t do it that cheap.
Cool Hand Luke wannabe
OK kid, now let's see if you can eat 50 eggs.
Anyone
who thinks a .32 cent solution isn't a reference to vigilante justice and cold blooded murder is an idiot. This man is a nonviolent offender, even his brief escape was nonviolent.
And to the person who said women think he is sexy; what the hell does that have to do with this case? Hey, women could write to him and offer all manner of sexual favors and offer to have his kids for all I care, it doesn't change his legal situation - which is the pertinent issue here.
And finally, to the goofball who said I don't understand the Zimmerman case, I've studied that case extensively. I'm ready to rumble, bring it on!
michaelh2001
I'm curious - Just how long would you allow someone to follow you in a vehicle, then get out and advance towards you, saying who knows what - let's say demanding to know what you are doing on the street to your house - before you throw a punch?
I think there is still information to come out in this case, and clearly the police department handled it poorly initially.
But I can't get away from the idea that if you follow and antagonize someone enough, they will eventually throw a punch - then you can shoot them and claim self-defense? What kind of twisted logic is that?
Shrike made the most
Shrike made the most appropriate comment so far.
This young man has a family and overall the comments have been insensative and rude regarding this situation. There is nothing funny about this.
Most people going to court from the jail would not have done what this young man has done with the attempted runs and it's apparent there is more going on than him being a basic criminal.
Shrike made the most
Shrike made the most appropriate comment so far.
This young man has a family and overall the comments have been insensative and rude regarding this situation. There is nothing funny about this.
Most people going to court from the jail would not have done what this young man has done with the attempted runs and it's apparent there is more going on than him being a basic criminal.
Ankle shackles work wonders
Ankle shackles work wonders
AKYOOPER
What you said in your post was the funniest damn thing I've heard today!! Hey, maybe they could tryout for the prison Olympic track team too!! LMAO!!!!! Thanks, I needed a laugh today!!! :>)
michaelh2001 - it doesn't
I never said it had anything to do with the case. I said I thought it was interesting that these women commented that way at all considering the NATURE of the article. See - I am commenting on the photo, the article and a group of individuals response to the article, which is what comment sections are about. Lighten up before you go off the handle. At least I didn't go off topic and try and talk about Obama and Romney like I see others do in other sections.
Whose bright idea to put this
Whose bright idea to put this persons picture on the front page?
Bad move-makes your paper look like a gossip mag.
Another Juneau bonehead
We need to bring up that Arizona sheriff.
Give him one of those local islands like shelter or lincoln for a penal colony. Move about 20% of this town there until they straighten out.
re: Whose bright idea to put this...
What do you want the Empire to do? Take him to Glamour Shots for a portfolio shoot and some 8 x 10 glossies? I agree he should have at least shaved...THE HORROR!
Maybe the next picture of a fatal car accident should have all brand new cars replacing the damaged ones? New mannequins substituted for the fatalities?
wow
Im very amazed, talon is a good kid that is scared....I KNOW HIM.....PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE OR A HOBBY...HMMMMMMMMMMMM
Really?
Good kids don't break into people's houses and steal their s**t. Good kids don't steal cars. Good kids don't forge prescriptions. Scared he may be, but good (or smart) he isn't.
re: beardscratcher
Good kids don't screw up like this and then run like he did. BTW, I have a life and it's not one where I have to appear in court and then decide to run with nowhere to go dressed as a creamsicle.