Sep 19, 2024

UPDATE: Authorities searching for inmate in Scottsbluff

Posted Sep 19, 2024 8:00 PM

By Scotts Bluff County Sheriff's Office

9/19/2024 Update

At 09:58 am the Scottsbluff Police Department was made aware of an escape of an inmate on a work detail in downtown Scottsbluff. The escapee was identified as Aaron J. Wilder Jr. (07/11/2003). Wilder has been taken into custody as of 1115 hrs this morning.

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At 9:55 a.m. this morning, inmate Aaron Wilder, age 21, walked away from an outside work crew in downtown Scottsbluff.  The work crew was supervised by a Scotts Bluff County Corrections Officer.

Officers from multiple agencies are actively searching for him at this time.

Wilder, age 21, was last seen wearing a blue jail-issued uniform.

Wilder is being held on a variety of misdemeanor charges and is not considered dangerous. 

Aaron Wilder Jr. is age 21, 5’9  165 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes.