{"id":5328,"date":"2016-05-23T20:58:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-inmate-escapes-then-comes-back-to-try-to-free-others\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:58:05","slug":"alaska-inmate-escapes-then-comes-back-to-try-to-free-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-inmate-escapes-then-comes-back-to-try-to-free-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska inmate escapes, then comes back to try to free others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 A minimum-security prisoner who escaped from a halfway house in Fairbanks came back three hours later, but it wasn\u2019t to turn himself in.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska State Troopers say 20-year-old Joshua Yaska returned with an sports utility vehicle and tried to help other inmates flee the facility in Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members say Yaska was spotted leaving on a bike just after 1 a.m. Sunday. Troopers say he returned at 4:20 a.m. and tried to \u201caid in the escape of other inmates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say he tried to strike a halfway house employee with the vehicle. Troopers say they caught up with him that night after he broke into a relative\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Online court records show Yaska has past misdemeanor convictions for misconduct, assault and violating the conditions of his release.<\/p>\n<p>He has been represented by the Alaska Public Defender Agency, which didn\u2019t immediately return a phone message Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 A minimum-security prisoner who escaped from a halfway house in Fairbanks came back three hours later, but it wasn\u2019t to turn himself in. Alaska State Troopers say 20-year-old Joshua Yaska returned with an <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/\">sports<\/a> utility vehicle and tried to help other inmates flee the facility in Fairbanks. Staff members say Yaska was spotted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}