KTBS 3 News | Shreveport, LA: ArkLaTex News - Bossier jail escapee, girlfriend captured

Posted: Nov 6, 2009 10:16 AM
Updated: Nov 6, 2009 12:17 PM

An inmate who walked away from a Bossier Parish work detail one week ago has been captured in Garland, Texas.

Julio Keenum, 27, of New Orleans was a trustee at the parish's minimum-security jail when he disappeared last Friday. He had been convicted of a crime in another parish and was being held for the state Department of Corrections.

Keenum was not among the dozens of inmates assigned to sandbagging efforts in Bossier City, Sheriff Larry Deen said. His job was to take care of Sheriff's Department K-9s at the jail.

Deen said Keenum had a girlfriend from Central America and had been making plans with her to go back there. The girlfriend, Krsna Keli Stuber, 26, was waiting in a vehicle just down the road from the jail, Deen said, and the couple drove to Garland and checked into a motel.

Bossier sheriff's detectives, who talked to friends and relatives of Keenum, got information they were in Texas and contacted Garland police, who arrested the couple last Sunday. Keenum and Stuber have now been extradited to Bossier Parish.

Keenum was booked for simple escape.

Stuber was charged assisting in an escape. She was also held for immigration authorities.