By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A week after his escape, Green Hill student-inmate Dominic Adams was found yesterday evening at the Three Rivers Mall in Kelso.
Officers were investigating an assault in the south end of town from earlier in the day and contacted two individuals with similar descriptions of the two suspects at the mall around 6 p.m., according to the Kelso Police Department.
[1]Dominic Adams
One was arrested for a warrant, and the other for obstruction, Kelso Capt. Darr Kirk said.
“Then we discovered he was wanted for escaping Green Hill,” Kirk said this morning.
Kelso police say Adams gave a false name and tried to flee the officers but was taken into custody following a short struggle. He reportedly had a wooden billy club with him.
Adams was booked into the Cowlitz County Jail for obstruction, warrants and faces possible other charges related to the interaction with Kelso police, according to Kirk.
Kirk said he didn’t know when Adams would be sent back to Green Hill School in Chehalis.
The Kelso police captain didn’t have information on the second individual, but thought it might be a juvenile. The Kelso assault remains under investigation, he said.
It was about 9 p.m. a week earlier when Chehalis police were called to the state run juvenile detention facility at the south end of Chehalis.
They were told Adams ran off during a maintenance detail and staff members subsequently found a hole cut in the fence. Authorities believed someone in a car seen near the compound, who was flashing their lights and honking their horn, picked Adams up.
Adams was serving the remainder of his juvenile sentence and was to be transferred to adult prison next March to serve 105 months for an assault that occurred in 2013.
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“Green Hill escapee: On the run from adult prison term” from Thursday May 7, 2015, here [2]