The Magoffin County Sheriff’s Office recently pulled over Matthew Owens, 50, of Salyersville, and found he had a warrant after being charged with meth trafficking earlier this year.
When the police told him to turn around to be cuffed, they said he tried to run away instead, but he was stopped with a taser.
Owens was arrested, double-cuffed, so the cuffs wouldn’t tighten up on him. But when they got him out of the car later, they heard the left cuff tighten up, indicating he had somehow managed to unlock it.
That’s when they looked back in the car and saw a handcuff key in the seat underneath where he had been sitting.
Owens now faces charges of third-degree escape, fleeing police, resisting arrest, and menacing, in addition to the original charges.