LAKE STATION, Ind. (AP) - A 19-year-old man was apprehended Friday by northwestern Indiana police, hours after he escaped from a hospital where he was taken following a standoff with officers, police said.
Michael McGregor of Lake Station was arrested without incident about 1 a.m. Friday in the Lake County city, said Police Chief James Richardson. He was being at the Lake County Jail.
Officers initially arrested McGregor on Thursday following a standoff at this home as they were arrested him on a warrant stemming from felony drug and weapons, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reported.
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But he escaped later Thursday from the Methodist Hospitals Southlake Campus, where he had been taken for a medical issue. A manhunt by several police agencies followed.
Richardson said that new charges were pending Friday against McGregor.
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