judge strips off robe and chases two inmates trying to escape From his Courtroom in lewis county

CHEHALIS, Wash. (AP) —The judge removed his robe and gave chase after two handcuffed inmates escaped the courtroom in Washington.

At the end of the video, the judge succeeds in catching one of the fugitives and is about to leave the building. Reports indicate that the authorities arrested the other fugitives several blocks away from the building.

The video obtained by Daily Chronicle shows that Judge R. W. Bozard jumped to action when Tanner Jacobson, 22, and Cody Howard, 28, withdrew from the door down the stairs.

Two inmates run from a Washington courtroom, judge strips off robe and chases them down, on cam https://t.co/kiCF0aBehT

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The media reported that one of them went out into the street, but the judge grabbed the second at the emergency door, and the other was arrested a few meters away

This is not the first incident Judge Buzzard has gotten involved in said Chief Deputy Dusty Breen of the Lewis County Sheriff's Department.