Fugitive eludes police for 12 hours

Escapee Christopher Davidson is finally captured and on way to jail.

A manhunt that lasted over 12 hours around Colfax ended Monday at about 2:30 p.m. when Christopher Allen Davidson, 24, a fugitive from Oregon, was arrested on Railroad Ave., across the railroad tracks from the Perkins House in the Brown’s Addition section of Colfax.

Davidson, who fled from a vehicle on Highway 26 in north Colfax at about 2 a.m. Monday, had been spotted several times by officers and residents in the early morning hours. He then vanished for several hours during the morning and surfaced again at about 2 p.m.

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