Armed Robbery Suspect Escapes Police Custody Twice In Same Day

A suspect from Spencer was arrested two times Thursday after a chase with police and escaping police custody. 

Dakota Rust is facing multiple complaints, including armed robbery, eluding police, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, escape from arrest and attempt to escape from prison.

This began Thursday afternoon when Spencer Police got a shots fired call.

“When officers arrived, they determined that nobody had been shot, however a suspect did put a gun in somebody face and demand the keys to the vehicle and got in the vehicle and left,” Lt. Moore with Spencer Police said

Rust began a pursuit with police in the stolen vehicle before crashing into a fence.

“The suspect wound up back where he had stolen the vehicle from was taken into custody, there he broke loose and took off running," Moore said.

After a short foot chase with Rust, officers took him into custody and drove him to the Oklahoma County Detention Center. 

Spencer Police told News 9 that they were told Rust would need to be medically cleared before being booked.

Police said they had taken Rust to get St. Anthony's for some cuts and scrapes and the possibility that he was under the influence of narcotics.

While officers were filling out paperwork to get extra security at the hospital, Rust ran away from police.

“He filled out the paperwork to get the guy admitted and turned around to give it to the desk, and the guy bolted," Moore said.

Police said they may have never found Rust if it weren't for a neighboring business worker. 

“We probably would not have located him if it wouldn't have been for the citizen hearing some noises," Moore said.

Corbin Massengale works at Electra Leaf dispensary right in the area where Rust escaped.

Police had checked the area more than once and had not seen any sign of Rust. 

Massengale said he heard noises coming from a storage space they share with a bar next door.

“Once I heard, what I thought was, a keg moving, and it was actually this door. I could tell there was something crazy going on, " Massengale said.

“'I'm like, ‘hey there's somebody in here, I know you guys checked this already, but there’s an area in here where somebody’s making noise,’" Massengale said.

Massengale showed News 9 a manhole in the storage space where Rust had come out of. 

He thinks Rust accessed the area through a different manhole on the street outside of the building and crawled through, all while still handcuffed.

“I think what happened is he went under the building and came up over here, so it’s just full-on crazy story," Massengale said. 

“He was just hiding in here the whole time," Massengale said.

Massengale heard the noises just minutes before police were planning to call off the search. 

Moore said he is glad they got him off the streets, and they plan to request at least six to seven charges, beginning with the armed robbery from that morning, all the way through the escape from police. 

He received medical treatment and was booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center Thursday night.