By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A week after his escape, Green Hill student-inmate Dominic Adams was found yesterday evening at the Three Rivers Mall in Kelso.
Officers were investigating an assault in the south end of town from earlier in the day and contacted two individuals with similar descriptions of the two suspects at the mall around 6 p.m., according to the Kelso Police Department.
Dominic Adams
One was arrested for a warrant, and the other for obstruction, Kelso Capt. Darr Kirk said.
“Then we discovered he was wanted for escaping Green Hill,” Kirk said this morning.
Kelso police say Adams gave a false name and tried to flee the officers but was taken into custody following a short struggle. He reportedly had a wooden billy club with him.
Adams was booked into the Cowlitz County Jail for obstruction, warrants and faces possible other charges related to the interaction with Kelso police, according to Kirk.
Kirk said he didn’t know when Adams would be sent back to Green Hill School in Chehalis.
The Kelso police captain didn’t have information on the second individual, but thought it might be a juvenile. The Kelso assault remains under investigation, he said.
It was about 9 p.m. a week earlier when Chehalis police were called to the state run juvenile detention facility at the south end of Chehalis.
They were told Adams ran off during a maintenance detail and staff members subsequently found a hole cut in the fence. Authorities believed someone in a car seen near the compound, who was flashing their lights and honking their horn, picked Adams up.
Adams was serving the remainder of his juvenile sentence and was to be transferred to adult prison next March to serve 105 months for an assault that occurred in 2013.
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“Green Hill escapee: On the run from adult prison term” from Thursday May 7, 2015, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Amen Idiotkiller. I have to totally agree with you. People are so quick to see the flaws in another person but never look at the good things they do. My prayers go out to these young kids that have no support. God Bless them and let them stop being JUDGED.
You people have no clue what those kids at Green Hill School go through every day!!!!!!!!! I have been to GHS and I did 36 weeks behind that fence. The things I seen there I will NEVER forget and will haunt me for the rest of my life. Staff there go on power trips and spit on kids, slap them, hit them, kick them, ridicule them, and absolutely bully them to hell. I am not saying that every kid there is innocent. I am saying though that they are shown no form of love or compassion from the people that are supposedly there to “rehabilitate” them. This kid has my support and prayers no matter what. It is time that the citizens of this community stop judging these kids and start seeing what we can do to help them. We all do stupid things when we are young. With help and guidance from mentors I think the youth at Green Hill School would have a much higher success rate. There are kids there that have been there for five years and NOT one single person, family member, loved one, or anyone from the outside world has bothered to contact them. Some where born wards of the state. These youth need people to love them not to judge them for the things they did as young stupid kids.
Out for a week to gain 30 more years in prison. Good luck in Clallam Bay, you’ll make a sweet girlfriend.
Oh just give him another chance….. hopefully when he kills somebody it will be another criminal and not a innocent bystander…
All he had to do, was just not do something stupid.
Some folks just don’t function well with freedom.