Fugitive captured, extradited to West Virginia after five years on the run

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — Five years after the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office announced they were looking for a man in connection to a Dunbar carjacking, that suspect is now behind bars.

The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday, Sept. 11, that Timothy Lee Walding, 46, has been arrested and was extradited to Kanawha County on Wednesday, where he was booked into the South Central Regional Jail.

The search for Walding stems back to July 13, 2020, according to the sheriff’s office. The department posted on Facebook that day that Walding was considered armed and dangerous and that he was accused of a carjacking in Dunbar earlier that morning. They said that later that same day, he fled from a deputy in Sissonville.

He was also a person of interest in another Dunbar robbery, according to the KCSO.

According to the KCSO, he was found and arrested in Chicago. The West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority lists that he is being held without bond.