Cedric Marks captured after prison escape, suspected of multiple murders
Cedric Marks, 44, was captured Sunday after escaping from a prisoner transport van in Texas. Marks was in Kent County, Michigan jail for allegedly breaking into the home of ex-girlfriend Jenna Scott on last summer.
The professional mixed martial artist with a 31-27-1 fight record was taken into custody after a nine-hour manhunt involving multiple law enforcement agencies, Conroe police Lt. Scott Spencer said in a tweet.
After an exhausting 9 hour manhunt involving multiple Montgomery County, State and Federal Law Enforcement agencies- Cedric Joseph Marks has been captured.
Press conference with details will be at 5:45 pm at the Conroe Police Department@ConroePolice @MCTXSheriff pic.twitter.com/6BzQf9nif7
— Lieutenant Scott Spencer (@lt_scottspencer) February 3, 2019
Marks was arrested in Michigan last month on a Bell County, Texas, charge alleging that on Aug. 21, he broke into Scott’s home.
Houston police Lt. Dorcy McGinnis said murder warrants were issued Sunday for Marks in last month’s killings of Scott, and a friend of hers, Michael Swearingin, who disappeared Jan. 4 and were found buried in a shallow grave in Clearview, Oklahoma, on Jan. 15.
Murder suspect caught hiding in trash can in Montgomery County after escape https://t.co/IN8odrdbEm pic.twitter.com/v7DYERNNz2
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) February 4, 2019
Authorities run down the 45 feeder looking for escapee Cedric Marks, an MMA fighter with 3 pending murder charges https://t.co/YtwKciiDxy pic.twitter.com/X3dAqqhBEZ
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) February 3, 2019
Two women were arrested in Michigan on charges related to Marks.
Maya Maxwell is charged with evidence tampering and is jailed in Bell County, Texas, on $150,000 bond. According to an arrest affidavit, she told detectives that she drove Swearingin’s vehicle to Austin in an attempt to hide it from investigators. It was found abandoned in the city Jan. 6.
Ginell McDonough, who is Marks’ wife and the mother of two of his two children, is jailed in Muskegon County, Michigan, on an obstruction of justice charge. She is accused of allowing Marks and Maxwell to stay in her home between Jan. 5 and Jan. 9.
Police in Bloomington, Minnesota, say Marks remains a person of interest in the 2009 disappearance of April Pease, who was the mother of one of his children.
Marks last competed in MMA less than a year ago in March 2018, losing to Edmilson Freitas at Rocks Xtreme MMA 23 in Corpus Christi, Texas.
