Oct. 12--CANON CITY -- Authorities teamed up to apprehend two men who escaped from a Michigan residential prison program 21/ 2 weeks ago.
Canon City and Florence police, Fremont and Pueblo County sheriff's deputies and U.S. Marshals teamed up to locate the fugitives and they were arrested by a Pueblo SWAT team. Gregory Bradshaw, 23, and Kenneth Grauman II, 32, were taken into custody shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, according to Capt. Jim Cox of the Canon City Police Department.
As the evening wore on, authorities discovered a suspected methamphetamine lab in the hotel room where the suspects had been staying.
Authorities also detained two women accomplices for questioning. The women have been identified as Lauralee Grauman, 29, and Brittany Rector, 17, according to a U.S. Marshal's press release.
The fugitives were at the Budget Host Royal Gorge Inn in Canon City. Cox said police were executing a search warrant at the motel late Thursday. Among the
items found were a meth lab and a large amount of cash and weapons. At 9 p.m. Thursday, Colorado Springs police were called to dismantle the lab.
The U.S. Marshals, who had been offering a reward for information leading to an arrest, said they worked with state and local authorities to develop information that the four were probably in Colorado, according to the press release.
When the fugitives were surrounded by heavily armed law officers near the intersection of U.S. 50 and Raynolds near the Budget Host Royal Gorge Inn, they were driving a silver Nissan.
Cox said no one was injured in the covert surveillance operation, which started Wednesday when local authorities got a tip the men could be headed to Canon City. A "Be on the Lookout" notice was forwarded to all officers in the area, he said.
The men escaped Sept.
22 from the Lake County Residential Reentry Program in Baldwin, Mich.
In a trek that covered six states and 1,365 miles, the fugitives are believed to have fled from police on at least three occasions in Michigan and are believed to be responsible for numerous home invasions.
Police in central Indiana were looking for the fugitives Oct. 4 after Kokomo Police found a stolen white Ford Taurus that was linked to the men when it had been stolen from Allegan, Mich. The Howard County Indiana Sheriff's Department received a report of a stolen GMC pickup truck in Kokomo.
Grauman and Bradshaw are being held at the Fremont County jail awaiting extradition to Michigan on felony charges.
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