The Ohio Highway Patrol says a search continues for a prisoner who escaped at an interstate rest stop while being moved by a private inmate transport company.
OHP says Affordable Extradition Service was transporting 32-year-old Said Ali El-Khatib from the New York Police Department to the Allen County Sheriff in Indiana when the the prisoner escaped Friday after asking to use the restroom at the stop along southbound I-71 in northeast Ohio. Troopers and sheriffs' deputies searched unsuccessfully late Friday and resumed their search Saturday. The patrol says the inmate was handcuffed, had shackles around his waist and an ankle, and is violent.