Jackson, MS (AP) - A man accused of kidnapping a 4-year-old South Carolina girl is headed back to that state after a court hearing in Mississippi.
Mike Hurst is the U.S. Attorney for southern Mississippi. He says 37-year-old Thomas Lawton Evans Jr. did not seek bail during a brief initial appearance Friday in Jackson. Hurst says U.S. Marshals are returning Evans to Charleston, South Carolina.
He's scheduled to be arraigned there on charges that he kidnapped a 4-year-old girl after attacking her mother with a knife and tying her up.
Police in Riverside, Alabama, say they recovered the girl, Heidi Todd, after approaching a sleeping Evans on Wednesday. Evans fled after handing the girl to police.
He was captured later Wednesday after crashing on a dead-end road in DeKalb, Mississippi, following a miles-long (kilometers-long) police chase.