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Charges filed in jailbreak

By Greg Bebermeyer

01/03/2018

Matson Hatfield & Jeffrey Guenther

(KMZA)--The Kansas Attorney General’s Office has filed charges against two inmates who escaped from the Marshall County Jail in October.

46-year-old Jeffrey Guenther and 30-year-old Matson Hatfield face one count of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder along with multiple other charges.

Authorities alleged the two men lit a cell on fire and obtained two shotguns while escaping from the jail October 14th.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says Hatfield fled to a nearby home and surrendered a short time later. A pickup truck also was stolen at gunpoint from a civilian county employee. The KBI says Guenther was arrested after rolling the truck in rural Gage County, Nebraska.

The KBI says shots were fired at a Marysville fire department truck and a man in front of a home. No one was hurt.

The Attorney General’s Office is seeking to try the two men together.

The Marysville Advocate reports Hatfield is being held in the Washington County, KS jail with other Marshall County inmates while the fire-damaged jail undergoes repairs.

Guenther is being held at a jail facility in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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