By Brian Stanley
Chicago Sun-Times
LOCKPORT, Ill. — A convict being returned to prison escaped by jumping from a moving van Friday in southwest suburban Lockport — but he was caught late Friday, hiding in a port-a-potty near Joliet.
Cesar Sanchez, 37, was being returned from the Cook County Courthouse in Bridgeview to the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill. He escaped at 2:15 p.m. while the van was near 159th Street and Farrell Road. Sanchez apparently injured a leg in the jump but was able to limp away.
At 8:45 p.m., Sanchez was found at a Waste Management facility in Rockdale, three miles southwest of Joliet, where at least 300 port-a-potties are stored, officials said. He was found in a port-a-potty by a police helicopter with infrared heat sensors.
Sanchez is serving a seven-year burglary sentence.
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