NDCS inmate arrested in Texas after chase

 An inmate who left the Community Corrections Center-Lincoln has been arrested in Franklin County, Texas. Brandon Britton and another inmate, Ronald Taylor, left their electronic monitoring devices lying in the area of Highway 77 and West Van Dorn Street in

Lincoln on the morning of May 21, 2020. Britton was taken into custody today after leading officers in Texas on a six-mile chase.  He was arrested through the cooperative efforts of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Ranger Division and the U.S. Marshals

Service in the Eastern District of Texas. Britton has been charged with felony evading arrest along with other misdemeanors. Britton is serving a 10-year sentence in the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) for convictions in Seward and Douglas

counties that include first degree assault, methamphetamine charges and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. His sentence started January 23, 2018. Taylor is serving a sentence of 24 years and nine months to 54 years on charges out of Custer and

Lancaster counties that include escape, possession of a controlled substance, assault by a confined person, theft and possession of methamphetamine. His current whereabouts are unknown.