PAWNEE COUNTY — Pawnee County officials were notified Thursday that Larned State Hospital escapee John Freeman Colt was sentenced in Utah Federal Court to a 21-month term with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, according to the Pawnee County Attorney’s Office.

On June 30, 2021, Colt escaped from the Sexual Predator Treatment Program on the LSH campus.

Following a nationwide manhunt involving Pawnee County law enforcement and the U.S. Marshals Office, Colt was arrested in Wayne County, Utah on Sept. 27, 2021. 

On Aug. 11, 2022, Colt entered a guilty plea to a single count of failing to register as a sex offender under the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

Colt is concurrently charged under Kansas Law with aggravated escape from custody, a severity level 8 non-person felony. Additionally, he is still subject to his civil commitment to the Kansas Sexual Predator Treatment Program.

Upon completion of his sentence on the federal conviction, arrangements will be made for Colt’s extradition back to Kansas.