Seward man who escaped police captured in Cambria County
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A Seward man who was on the run for 15 days after feigning illness and escaping police custody in Westmoreland County was captured Sunday in Cambria County, state police said.
Troopers apprehended Michael Paul Boring, 45, without incident just after 7:30 p.m. inside Martin General Store near Ebensburg, according to state police spokesman Trooper Cliff Greenfield. The store is located about 16 miles east of Seward just off Route 22.
Boring was wanted for aggravated assault, escape, resisting arrest and theft after he ran from Seward police as he was being transported to the Westmoreland County Prison on multiple warrants on Aug. 29. According to state police, Boring pretended he was ill and ran in Fairfield Township after the officer stopped the vehicle along Route 711.
On Sunday, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Cambria County Sheriff’s Department notified the state police in Ebensburg that Boring was spotted at the convenience store, according to Greenfield.
Boring is being held in the Cambria County Prison awaiting arraignment.
He was accompanied by a 36-year-old Seward woman, Greenfield said.
“She was taken into custody with Boring as well Sunday but released later that evening. But we do intend to charge her, too, with hindering apprehension,” Greenfield said.
Among the pending warrants against Boring was one for possession of drug paraphernalia and fleeing and eluding Seward police while driving a car Aug. 24 and another for criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass and retail theft for a May 17 incident in Murrysville, according to court dockets.
Boring’s criminal history dates back to 1998 and includes charges in Cambria, Indiana, Venango and Westmoreland counties.
Most of the arrests were for retail theft, but he also has been arrested for writing bad checks and driving on a suspended license. He has twice been convicted for resisting arrest in Westmoreland for incidents in 1998 and another in 2017, also involving Seward police.
He was sentenced to serve two years in prison on both resisting arrest convictions and court records show he was paroled on the 2017 case in May 2019.