Ted Treece was charged with assault and criminal activity with a firearm in connection with the incident Tuesday afternoon before being arrested Thursday evening. Jeffco Sheriff’s Office: machete suspect Ted Treece was arrested in a vacant house sleeping on a couch. Get this, he was in a story by a Kentucky TV station in 2014. When he returned from a deployment. He surprised his kids by skydiving into the park where they were. @KMOV pic.twitter.com/BrdnUJWJLG — Russell Kinsaul (@russellkinsaul) August 27, 2021 At around 6:45 a.m. Thursday night, MPs responded to the 10,000 block on East Brook Road on the WW Freeway in Dittmer, Missouri, after a neighbor reported an open window in an empty house. When the deputies entered the house, they found Treece sleeping on the couch. He was arrested without incident. They were able to confirm his identity with a mobile fingerprint reader. Grant Bissell, a spokesperson for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, said witnesses saw Treece walk into a grocery store around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon with a ski mask and machete in hand. Prosecution documents indicate that Treece started arguing with someone in the store and threatened the victim with a machete. Then he hit the victim in the face with the machete, which left a small cut on the victim's cheek. The victim then used a glass bottle to defend himself and Treece fled. Lawmakers said Treece's vehicle slipped off a school bus with 34 children and the bus driver as he tried to exit the crime scene. No one was injured on the bus. They were looking for him Tuesday night in a wooded area near Heads Creek Road in House Springs. He was captured at Dittmer about 25 miles away. Read the full article