Monday, Aug. 18, 2008

Pa. fugitive arrested at Hard Rock Park

Horry County Police arrested an escapee from a Bucks County, Pa., jail this afternoon at Hard Rock Park.

The Horry Police Criminal Investigations Division received information from Bucks County, Pa., at about 1:37 p.m. that Sydney E. Decker, Jr., 35, was in the area according to an anonymous tip, Lt. Jamie DeBari said.

Decker, who lives in the Myrtle Beach section of Horry County, has been charged with escape and is in custody at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center awaiting an extradition hearing.

Decker was serving time for criminal trespassing and breaking into a structure in Pennsylvania, DeBari said.