Second jail escapee taken into custody

Steven D. Roche is no longer on the lam.

Roche was taken into custody Wednesday in the Tacoma-Olympia area of Washington by members of the Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force.

Roche and Chad E. Tipton escaped April 4 from the Yakima County Correctional Center, where they were being held for the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office. Tipton was re-captured April 8.

Tips from the public led task force members to a hotel where they were able to take Roche into custody.