Court filing: Woman, 78, picked up Hennepin County jail escapee, drove him to her home

A 78-year-old woman picked up a Hennepin County jail escapee soon after he clambered down from an upper floor of the downtown building and drove him miles away before he was caught later that morning outside her suburban home, according to a newly filed court document.

The disclosure comes in a request from the Sheriff’s Office for court permission to search the phone that investigators say Michael F. Simon called after he was on the street in jailhouse orange Wednesday morning and newly deemed a fugitive.

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