MMA fighter Cedric Marks captured after escaping van, suspected in 2 killings
Update: After being on the run for several hours, escaped prisoner, Cedric Joseph Marks, is now back in custody with police.
Marks, 44, managed to get away early Sunday morning while transporters had stopped for food in a van. He was found hiding inside a trash can between homes in Montgomery County for up to 9-hours.
He was taken into custody without incident.
The Associated Press noted police said Marks escaped from a prison van around 7:30 a.m. near the 800 block of N. Loop 336 West. He got away when the transport vehicle he was in stopped at a McDonald’s.
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Several law enforcement agencies are on the lookout for an escaped prisoner who is a professional MMA fighter and has three pending murder charges against him.
According to WFAA, the prisoner, 44-year-old Cedric Joseph Marks, escaped from a “private prisoner transport” in Conroe, Texas, near the 800 block of N. Loop 336 West.
Marks has made headlines in Central Texas after his ex-girlfriend Jenna Scott and her friend Michael Swearingin disappeared on Jan. 4. Their bodies were discovered several days later, on Jan. 15, in the small town of Clearview, Oklahoma.
Marks was not named as a suspect in their deaths as of Jan. 18 but he remained in a Kent County, Michigan jail awaiting extradition to Temple for allegedly breaking into Scott’s home on Aug. 21.
Marks was released from the Kent County Jail in Michigan Thursday morning and picked up by U.S. Prisoner Transportation Services to be extradited to Texas, according to Kent County Jail officials.
At the time of his recent escape, Scott Spencer, a lieutenant with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, said transporters had stopped for food when Marks took off.
They say he is not wearing a shirt. Deputies located the article of clothing after he had gotten away.
According to deputies Cedric Joseph Marks isn’t wearing a shirt. It was found by law enforcement after he fled. https://t.co/Oe1BT8aAc3
— MCTXSheriff (@MCTXSheriff) February 3, 2019
Officials say Marks was once an MMA trainer at Title Boxing in Killeen and is considered extremely dangerous.
If you have seen Marks, please contact law enforcement immediately. Do not approach him.
