Prison Transport Company Fighting Lawsuit

| 9/6/2012

A prison transport company is fighting North Dakota police and farmers who helped end a standoff in a Barnes County corn field last fall. A federal lawsuit against Extradition Transport of America asks for restitution for several law enforcement agencies and farmers who formed a posse for the search, but the company doesn`t want to pay.

Police say they spent about $95,000 re-capturing Joseph Megna, who was being transported from Florida to Washington state when he escaped at a rest stop near Oriska, North Dakota. Megna was on the loose for about 20 hours, and police finally arrested him after farmers started combining the field he was hiding in to flush him out.

Extradition Transport says federal court does not have jurisdiction in the case and it should be thrown out.

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