Hall K9 team aids in capture of Jackson Co. escapee

An escapee from the Jackson County Work Release Program was recaptured Tuesday with the help of a K9 team from Hall County.

About noon, officers from Jackson County Sheriff’s Office Warrant Division, Hall County, Georgia Department of Corrections K-9 Unit, Appalachian Drug Task Force and Jackson County Corrections captured Colton Pass.

Pass had been sentenced to Jackson County’s Corrections Work Release Program, a deferment program that is designed to provide an alternative to prison for low level crimes.

Pass walked away from his place of employment May 24 and had been on the run ever since.

Authorities did not say where he was captured or what he was serving time for.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.