{"id":25487,"date":"2025-03-22T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/escaped-prisoner-who-fled-from-prison-van-on-m55-in-preston-found\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T16:06:17","slug":"escaped-prisoner-who-fled-from-prison-van-on-m55-in-preston-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/escaped-prisoner-who-fled-from-prison-van-on-m55-in-preston-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped prisoner who fled from prison van on M55 in Preston found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">A prisoner who faked a medical emergency and escaped from a prison van on his way to court has been found, police have said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Jamie Cooper was found in Blackburn, Lancashire on Saturday afternoon after a car which had travelled from Bolton was stopped by police.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">They have arrested the 33-year-old on suspicion of escaping from lawful custody.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">He was being taken to Lancaster Magistrates&#8217; Court in a GEOAmey van just before 09:00 GMT on Wednesday when he went on the run on the M55 motorway at junction 2 near Preston.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Mr Cooper, originally from Blackpool, &#8220;overpowered&#8221; escort officers before making his escape, a GEOAmey spokesperson said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Lancashire Police said Mr Cooper, who was facing charges for assaulting a police officer and criminal damage, remains in police custody.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvg5dw4de5zo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prisoner who faked a medical emergency and escaped from a prison van on his way to court has been found, police have said. Jamie Cooper was found in Blackburn, Lancashire on Saturday afternoon after a car which had travelled from Bolton was stopped by police. They have arrested the 33-year-old on suspicion of escaping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3161,3766,9199,8365,3331,5658,419],"class_list":["post-25487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-escaped","tag-fled","tag-m55","tag-preston","tag-prison","tag-prisoner","tag-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25489,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions\/25489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}