Man jumps from second floor of courthouse

Spanish Fork Police Department reports an inmate jumped from the second floor courthouse onto the lobby floor Monday morning (4/30) sustaining non-life threatening injuries.

Spanish Fork Police Lt. Brandon Anderson told 2News that inmates had been transported from the jail to the county courthouse for hearings.

At 9:24 a.m. , while all the inmates were sitting in court, one of the inmates – Christopher Clay Rudd – ran out of the courtroom and jumped over the second-floor railing falling to the foyer below.

Rudd suffered a head injury and possibly a leg injury, Anderson said.

He was taken to the hospital to receive medical attention.

Police say Rudd was handcuffed with the cuffs attached to a belly chain. He did not have on any leg restraints.

Rudd is being held on misdemeanor charges or drug possession and failure to comply with drug treatment.

No other people were injured or harmed in the incident.