SEATTLE - A prisoner that was being transported through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport escaped custody on Tuesday, officials confirm. Law enforcement is searching for 20-year-old John Nino. He allegedly ran from two Washington Department of Corrections officers while on the fourth floor of the airport garage,

Pierce County deputy prosecutor Lisa Wagner gives a closing statements in the trial of Nicholas Fitzgerald Matthew, 29, for first-degree attempted murder in the February 2024 stabbing of a woman at Point Defiance, in Pierce County Superior Court on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, in Tacoma, Wash. Brian Hayes [email protected]

Tacoma police officers responded to the park and found the woman with multiple stab wounds. Detectives identified Matthew as the suspect and spent nearly seven weeks searching for him. The manhunt nearly ended overseas.