{"id":28672,"date":"2013-12-13T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=28672"},"modified":"2013-12-13T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:50:13","slug":"the-search-for-tompkins-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/12\/the-search-for-tompkins-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search For <br>Tompkins Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28615\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28615\" title=\"Steven Tompkins\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Steven-Tompkins-227x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Steven-Tompkins-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Steven-Tompkins.png 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LCSO is looking for Steven Tompkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The search for Steven Tompkins and a nineteen year old female accompanying him came to an end.\u00a0 Detectives with the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Major Crimes and Fugitive Warrants Units aggressively\u00a0followed leads to track down, notify\u00a0and update\u00a0authorities which resulted in their successful capture in Platte County, Wyoming.\u00a0 Tompkins\u00a0is being held for extradition on two counts of second degree murder while Joycelin Luck\u00a0faces two counts of\u00a0accessory after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am extremely grateful for\u00a0our law enforcement partners in Wyoming today,&#8221; said Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott.\u00a0 &#8220;To the State Troopers for the safe apprehension of the two in the fuel starved vehicle and the deputies of the Platte County Sheriff who are temporarily detaining\u00a0these two wanted felons till we can bring them back to Lee County to face justice.&#8221;\u00a0 The Sheriff went on to say, &#8220;I have to commend our detectives who worked tirelessly from hour one of this horrific crime.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve done an outstanding job investigating, solving and coordinating to bring this to resolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for Steven Tompkins and a nineteen year old female accompanying him came to an end.\u00a0 Detectives with the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Major Crimes and Fugitive Warrants Units&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}