An accused sex offender made a run for it by the Bethel courthouse Tuesday morning.
Troopers report that Brenton W. White, 21, of Quinhagak slipped out of his restraints at about 8:25 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of the Bethel courthouse. A search ensued, and about an hour later, he was spotted running across the highway and trying to hide in an abandoned home.
A trooper and a probation officer took him into custody but not without minor injuries. White scratched and bruised his captors, and then complained that one of his legs had been hurt.
White was medically cleared before being taken to the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center where he was charged with escape, resisting arrest and two counts of misdemeanor assault on a police officer in addition to his original charges of furnishing alcohol to minors in a dry village and touching two of them sexually.
