A Roseville man charged in a January altercation that left a deputy with a broken ankle and a pair of police cruisers damaged has been arrested for a second time after escaping a mental health facility in Athens.

According to Sheriff Matt Lutz, John Beatty was the target of the Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office and SWAT team operation Thursday afternoon after his office received word that Beatty was hiding in a house on Blue Avenue.

Beatty was found hiding in a crawl space in the basement and was arrested without incident.

The nearby John McIntire Elementary School was placed on lockdown until the scene cleared around 2:15 p.m.

While awaiting a competency hearing that would determine if Beatty could stand trial, he was sent to Appalachian Behavioral Health in Athens for evaluation, according to his court record.

Lutz said Beatty escaped the facility nearly two weeks ago after obtaining an employee’s key card.

Now that Beatty is back in custody, Lutz expects he will face an additional charge of escape.

Beatty has already pleaded not guilty to three first-degree felonies of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and felonious assault on a peace officer, a third-degree felony of failure to comply with risk of harm, a fourth-degree felony of vandalism, and two fifth-degree felonies of vandalism and possession of criminal tools.

On Twitter, Lutz said “Just another awesome job by our MCSO/ZPD drug unit, our SWAT team and our K9 division with assistance from Perry County SO! I also want to thank the public for their help in this arrest..”

According to Lutz, the incident that landed Beatty in jail began around 3 a.m. on Jan. 16 at the Maysville Pike Walmart when deputies were called to investigate a suspicious person fitting the description of a previous shoplifter at the store.

When deputies began interviewing the suspect, who was later identified as Beatty, the man would not cooperate, Lutz said.

The suspect attempted to leave without complying to the orders of the deputies and without sharing his name or any other information with law enforcement, prompting a struggle that resulted in a deputy breaking his ankle when he and another deputy fell to the ground with Beatty.

The injured deputy stayed behind while the other took off after Beatty, who was running to his truck in the parking lot.

After a failed attempt at stopping him with a Taser, Beatty fled in his vehicle, prompting a road pursuit.

Beatty led deputies southwest on Maysville Pike, onto SR 93 and finally onto Crock Road where he turned onto a dead-end driveway.

Becoming trapped, Beatty attempted to circle back around the deputies by driving through yards. When Beatty drove back out of the driveway, he became stuck on its incline.

Lutz said Beatty then put his truck into reverse and rammed the cruiser behind him twice, the second impact sending Williams into the second deputy’s vehicle.

At that point, the deputies exited their cars and successfully deployed a Taser through Beatty’s side window, allowing the officers to take him into custody.

Beatty has been returned to the Muskingum County Jail where his bond was originally set at $1 million.