MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- The fugitive Bollinger County authorities have been looking for was arrested Tuesday as he attempted to cross the border from Laredo, Texas, into Mexico.
Bollinger County Sheriff Darin Shell said he was notified at 8:37 p.m. by the U.S. Border Patrol that Nicholas Loughary, 22, had been arrested. The border patrol ran a check on Loughary, and found that he had felony warrants against him in Bollinger and St. Francois counties.
Loughary now faces extradition from Texas. If he waives extradition, Shell said, Loughary will be returned to Bollinger County within a couple of weeks.
He faces charges in Bollinger County of first-degree tampering, stealing a motor vehicle, burglary, stealing currency, unlawful use of a weapon and resisting arrest by fleeing -- all felonies.
In St. Francois County he faces a felony charge of deviate sexual assault.
Loughary had been living at Whippoorwill Lake, where he worked, Shell said.
"He broke into the owner's house, and it was the owner's vehicle that he stole," he said.
The vehicle was used only on the campground property and had no registration. Shell said Loughary also is accused of stealing a license plate from someone staying at the campground and attaching it to the stolen truck. The vehicle, license plate and a shotgun Loughary is believed to have stolen from Whippoorwill Lake and sawed off, all were recovered in Texas.
Pertinent address:
Laredo, Texas
Marble Hill, Mo.
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