Absconder arrested inside Baxter hotel

A Chetopa man is back in custody in the Cherokee County Jail after being captured early Friday morning.

Around 7:30 a.m., Cherokee County Sheriff’s Deputies and Officers with the Baxter Springs Police Department searched a Baxter Springs hotel room after receiving information the fugitive was there.

Ernest Wayne Moore Jr., 51, pleaded guilty in Cherokee County District Court in December 2022 to burg…