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10/27/19
An Iowa City woman who escaped from police custody last summer is back behind bars.
36-year-old Saroya Mally of Southgate Avenue was booked into the Johnson County Jail just after 10:30 Saturday morning. Mally was arrested last July after allegedly pepper spraying her live-in boyfriend during a domestic dispute at the couple’s Broadway Street apartment. Police say Mally was being transported from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to the Linn County Correctional Center on July 26th when she escaped from the marked transport vehicle near the corner of Olive Court and Melrose Avenue.
Mally is charged with Felony Escape From Custody. If convicted, she faces a maximum of five years in prison.