一名被判有罪的重罪犯被逮捕，并被指控犯有武器和毒品罪，他在审判证词帮助定罪一名田纳西州男子杀害护理学生霍利·波波后获释。
美联社(Associated Press)周二获得的联邦和州法院文件显示，杰森·奥特里(Jason Autry)上周四试图逃离一名警长的副手，在一片农村地区附近被捕。
文件称，已在州法院和联邦法院被判10项重罪的奥特里随身携带一支步枪，他还持有甲基苯丙胺。奥特里被联邦法院指控作为重罪犯持有枪支。他还被州法院指控持有毒品和逃避逮捕。法庭记录没有显示他是否有律师。
哈丁县法官c·克里德·麦金莱9月份判处奥特里8年有期徒刑，此前奥特里承认在波波案中教唆他人实施谋杀和协助特别严重的绑架。
2011年4月，波波20岁时从田纳西州帕森斯农村的家中失踪，引发了对树林、田野和农场的大规模搜索。三年多以后，也就是2014年9月，她的遗体在离她家不远的一片树林里被发现，离纳什维尔西南约100英里(160公里)。
奥特里在2017年对扎卡里·亚当斯的审判中作证，扎卡里·亚当斯被判犯有谋杀罪，特别是严重绑架和严重强奸。亚当斯被判终身监禁加50年。
奥特里获得了宽大处理，并与检察官达成协议，以换取他关于波波绑架、强奸和杀害的详细、生动的证词。奥特里说，当亚当斯在河边的一座桥下开枪打死波波时，他是一名了望员。
“听起来像是，嘣，嘣，嘣，就在那座桥下面。这只是一个镜头，但它呼应，”奥特里作证。“鸟儿到处飞，都在桥下。然后只是死一般的沉默一秒钟。”
麦金莱法官称赞了奥特里长达数小时的证词。
“他的证词是我在法庭上听到的最可信、最有说服力的证词，”法官在9月14日的判决中说。
Autry被认为服刑时间长，在判决后几个小时从监狱释放。他在纳什维尔以西约85英里(136公里)的本顿县与一名治安官副手相遇后，现在又回到了监狱。
根据酒精、烟草、火器和爆炸物局的一名工作队官员阿什利·罗伯逊在联邦法院提交的一份证词，这名副手看到奥特里躺在一块地里，并搜查他的武器，但没有找到任何武器。
斯泰西·博斯特威克副警长在没有发现任何未决的逮捕令后释放了奥特里。证词称，博斯特威克随后搜查了该地区，发现了一支步枪。
宣誓书说，这位议员回到自己的车里，跟着奥特里，发现他正走在霍拉代一户人家的车道上。奥特里朝家跑去，但是当博斯特威克命令他去拿步枪时，他停住了。
“奥特里说，他一直试图用枪打死一只鹿，当他看到副博斯特威克的巡逻车时，他躺在地上，”宣誓书说。
州逮捕令称，Autry还有一个小玻璃纸包装，上面有“一种透明水晶岩石类型的物质”，Autry说这是冰毒。
如果奥特里被判联邦武器罪名成立，他将面临至少15年的监禁。
A convicted felon who was released from prison after his trial testimony helped convict a Tennessee man in the slaying of nursing student Holly Bobo has been arrested and charged with weapons and drug offenses.
Jason Autry was arrested near a rural field after he tried to run away from a sheriff's deputy last Thursday, according to federal and state court documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Autry, who has been convicted of 10 felonies in state and federal court, had a rifle with him and he also was in possession of methamphetamine, the documents said. Autry has been charged in federal court with possessing a gun as a felon. He also has been charged with state court with drug possession and evading arrest. Court records do not show if he has a lawyer.
Hardin County Judge C. Creed McGinley sentenced Autry to eight years in state prison in September after Autry pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit murder and facilitation of especially aggravated kidnapping in the Bobo case.
Bobo was 20 when she vanished from her family's home in rural Parsons, Tennessee, in April 2011, prompting a massive search of woods, fields and farms. Her remains were found more than three years later, in September 2014, in woods not far from her home, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Nashville.
Autry testified in the 2017 trial of Zachary Adams, who was found guilty of murder, especially aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape. Adams was sentenced to life in prison plus 50 years.
Autry received leniency and struck a deal with prosecutors in return for his detailed, graphic testimony about Bobo's kidnapping, rape and killing. Autry said he served as a lookout as Adams fatally shot Bobo under a bridge near a river.
“It sounded like, boom, boom, boom, underneath that bridge. It was just one shot but it echoed,” Autry testified. “Birds went everywhere, all up under that bridge. Then just dead silence for just a second.”
Judge McGinley praised Autry’s hours-long testimony.
“His testimony was some of the most credible, persuasive testimony I’ve ever heard given in a courtroom,” the judge said at Autry's Sept. 14 sentencing.
Autry was credited with time served and released from prison hours after his sentencing. He is now back in jail after an encounter with a sheriff's deputy in Benton County, about 85 miles (136 kilometers) west of Nashville.
The deputy saw Autry lying in a field and searched him for weapons, finding none, according to an affidavit filed in federal court by Ashley Robertson, a task force officer with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Deputy Stacey Bostwick let Autry go after finding no pending arrest warrants. Bostwick then searched the area and found a rifle, the affidavit said.
The deputy returned to his car and followed Autry, finding him walking down a driveway of a home in Holladay, the affidavit said. Autry ran toward the home, but stopped when ordered by Bostwick, who asked him about the rifle.
“Autry said he had been attempting to shoot a deer with the gun and that he had lied down in the field when he observed Deputy Bostwick’s patrol car,” the affidavit said.
Autry also had a small cellophane wrapper with “a clear crystal rock type substance” that Autry said was meth, state arrest warrants said.
Autry faces at least 15 years in prison if convicted of the federal weapons charge.
