WICHITA, Kan. — A 40-year-old man who was arrested here in Kansas after escaping from a prison in Oklahoma has been indicted on federal firearms charges.
Lance D. Colbert is an inmate at the Mack Alford Correctional Center in Stringtown, Okla. He’s now charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm following a felony conviction, one count of unlawful possession of ammunition following a felony conviction, and one count of unlawfully possessing a .38 caliber revolver with the serial number removed.
It was back on March 11, when Colbert was arrested in Spivey, a small town in Kingman County. He and another man had escaped from the prison in Oklahoma two days earlier.
Also from Kingman County, 28-year-old Walt Jasper Samuel Shrum is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm following a felony conviction, one count of unlawful possession of ammunition following a felony conviction and one count of possession of methamphetamine. The crimes are alleged to have occurred March 11 in the city of Kingman.
If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on each of the firearms charges and a civil penalty up to $10,000 on the misdemeanor methamphetamine charge.