{"id":472464,"date":"2016-04-04T10:42:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472464"},"modified":"2016-04-05T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T15:33:45","slug":"two-inmates-one-from-longview-escape-from-van-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472464","title":{"rendered":"Two Inmates, One from Longview, Escape from Van in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/police-6.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-472465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/police-6-200x102.jpg\" alt=\"police-6\" width=\"200\" height=\"102\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-472465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/police-6-200x102.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/police-6-450x229.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/police-6.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) &#8211; Florida authorities are looking for two inmates, including one from Longview, who escaped from a van heading to Tallahassee.   Walton County Sheriff&#8217;s officials say they were notified by a private company that transports prisoners that 30-year-old Michael Andrew Rotunno and 31-year-old James Thomas Banks escaped early Monday.  Rotunno was being transported from Longview.  The van had stopped at the Walton County Jail in the Florida Panhandle.   Sheriff&#8217;s officials are assisting in the search. Local school districts also have been notified of the escape.  Rotunno is charged with larceny in a building and delivering and manufacturing narcotics. Banks faces charges of unarmed robbery and escaping from jail.   A Walton County Sheriff&#8217;s news release says the inmates were on their way to a facility in Jackson, Minnesota.  Banks was on his way from Orange County, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) &#8211; Florida authorities are looking for two inmates, including one from Longview, who escaped from a van heading to Tallahassee. Walton County Sheriff&#8217;s officials say they were notified by a private company that transports prisoners that 30-year-old Michael Andrew Rotunno and 31-year-old James Thomas Banks escaped early Monday. Rotunno was being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Inmates, One from Longview, Escape from Van in Florida<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":472465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 13:50:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472681,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472464\/revisions\/472681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/472465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}