More than 50 Phoenix police officers were scouring an area near 16th Street and Northern Avenue on Wednesday night for a suspect who escaped from the back seat of a patrol car while handcuffed. The suspect was briefly in custody Wednesday afternoon after ramming a stolen vehicle into an officer's patrol car. Sgt. Joel Tranter, a Phoenix police spokesman, said Lonnie Hansel, 36, was a suspect in a Sunday home invasion in which he tied an elderly woman to a chair in her kitchen around 4 a.m. and stole her late-model Cadillac. The woman was uninjured.
Tranter said Hansel has an extensive criminal record, but is not considered a violent criminal. Tranter described Hansel as White, with a very pale complexion and a thin build; about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, with dyed black hair. He was wearing a red button-up shirt and apparently lost the shorts he was wearing while trying to scale a wrought-iron fence in the escape. Figleaves
Tranter said Hansel has an extensive criminal record, but is not considered a violent criminal. Tranter described Hansel as White, with a very pale complexion and a thin build; about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, with dyed black hair. He was wearing a red button-up shirt and apparently lost the shorts he was wearing while trying to scale a wrought-iron fence in the escape. Figleaves
