A man wanted on numerous violent felonies by several local law enforcement agencies was taken into custody Wednesday morning in Ruston.
Delano Deshun Teray Owens, 30, of Ruston, was taken into custody October 23 after he escaped from the Grambling Police Department after an arrest the previous day, according to Lt. Matt Henderson of the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Office
Owens was wanted on violent felonies from Ouachita Parish and Grambling.
Grambling Police were dispatched to an apartment to conduct a welfare check of a woman about 11:00 a.m. on October 22. The woman was allegedly being held hostage. After the woman escaped, officers learned Owens was inside the residence and refused to come out.
The Special Response Team from LPSO assisted GPD in locating Owens in the attic of the residence, Henderson said.
Owens was taken to Grambling PD headquarters for processing. He escaped from GPD, prompting a massive search including the LPSO and its K-9 units and a K-9 chase team from Wade Correctional Center. The search continued into the night with drones and K-9s.
Wednesday morning, Owens reportedly received a ride from the Kennon Lane-West Alabama area in Ruston to the Eastland Avenue-Edgewood neighborhood. When the driver saw Owens was wearing handcuffs and shackles after he got out of the vehicle, he went to the Ruston Police Department to report what he saw.
Henderson said while LPSO was preparing search warrants for two residences where it was suspected Owens might be, a neighbor called about seeing a man in her yard wearing shackles. Agencies involved in the hunt quickly located Owens in a yard near East California Avenue and Edgewood Street about 9:00 a.m. He was still wearing GPD’s cuffs and leg shackles.
Owens was wanted by the Grambling Police Department for false imprisonment, resisting an officer, unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling, second degree battery of a dating partner with strangulation, simple escape, theft, and violation of a protective order.
The Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office holds arrest warrants for Owens for two counts of second degree kidnapping, second degree rape, stalking, and aggravated burglary.
Owens is currently being held at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center. Bail was set at $585,000 on the Lincoln Parish charges.
This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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