A man who escaped from a downtown detention facility has been located and arrested in Texas.

The process is underway to return Robert M. Taylor to custody in Kansas City, said Sgt. Jake Becchina, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department.

On Saturday morning, officers were dispatched to Heartland Center for Behavioral Change on a report of two missing inmates. The facility at 1514 Campbell Street is being used to temporarily house municipal inmates.

Jeffrey Young, 36, was located in a nearby parking garage at 22nd and Holmes streets where he was taken into custody.

Taylor, 33, remained missing until Monday evening when he was arrested.

The facility faced security challenges over the summer including two other inmates who escaped, an inmate who was found dead and another who was assaulted.

This story was originally published September 23, 2019 at 8:59 PM.

Katie Moore

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Katie Moore was an enterprise and accountability reporter for The Star. She covered justice issues, including policing, prison conditions and the death penalty. She is a University of Kansas graduate and began her career as a reporter in 2015 in her hometown of Topeka, Kansas.