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A husband and his wife who were transported across the country to face murder charges used an emergency medical trick, then arrested two security guards, tied them up and left them with a third uninvolved prisoner. on the outside of a rural city of Arizona, authorities said Thursday. David Gonzales, the US Marshal for Arizona, told AP that a private jail transport van had left Blanding, Utah, Monday afternoon. when Susan Barksdale claimed to have an "intestinal problem". "It was convincing enough that they feel the need to stop," says Gonzales. The guards were not armed and did not feel the need to take a handgun inside a locked box. But Susan and Blane Barksdale charged for them once they opened the rear compartment, said the marshal. The guards, both men and women, were not physically injured, Gonzales said, but the Barksdales used laces to tie them up and then put them in the back with a third inmate.
They also took a key to free themselves from a restraint system at the waist. The Barksdales drove the van to the town of Vernon, Arizona, where they met a friend who gave them access to his red GMC pickup truck. From there, each of them left in a vehicle for a distance of about 40 km and abandoned the van near the city of St. Johns, Arizona, taking money from the portfolios of guards and leaving them, as well as the third prisoner. The guards took two to three hours to free themselves, before kicking out the window. The Marshal Service offered Wednesday a reward of $ 20,000, or $ 10,000 per suspect, for any information leading to their arrest. Gonzalez thinks they're somewhere in the southwest, perhaps in Arizona or New Mexico. He also thinks that they have probably lost their prison uniforms. The Barksdales were arrested on May 24 near Rochester, New York, for first degree murder and other crimes related to the death of a 72-year-old man in Tucson in April.
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