{"id":6071,"date":"2026-10-18T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/st-louis-police-warn-residents-after-inmate-escape\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:35:55","slug":"st-louis-police-warn-residents-after-inmate-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/18\/st-louis-police-warn-residents-after-inmate-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Police Warn Residents After Inmate Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Police launch manhunt for 29-year-old Maurio Thomas after escape from City Justice Center; residents urged to secure homes, vehicles and outbuildings. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 18, 2026 (STL.News) The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department launched a manhunt Sunday morning after a 29-year-old inmate escaped from the City Justice Center in downtown St. Louis, prompting an urgent public safety warning for residents to lock their doors and avoid approaching the fugitive. Police identified the escaped inmate as Maurio Thomas, who was being held in connection with serious criminal charges involving the alleged sexual assault of an elderly woman. Authorities<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-police-warn-residents-after-inmate-escape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police launch manhunt for 29-year-old Maurio Thomas after escape from City Justice Center; residents urged to secure homes, vehicles and outbuildings. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 18, 2026 (STL.News) The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department launched a manhunt Sunday morning&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}