This combo made from photos released by the El Paso County, Colo., Sheriff's office shows Thomas James Guolee, 31, left, and James Franklin Lohr, 47, who are wanted for questioning in the Tom Clements homicide investigation. Lohr is described as 6 feet tall, 160 pounds, with blond hair, brown eyes and several tattoos. Guolee is a 31 year old male described as 5 feet 9 inches tall, 160 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes and several tattoos. (AP Photo/El Paso Sheriff)
This combo made from photos released by the El Paso County, Colo., Sheriff's office shows Thomas James Guolee, 31, left, and James Franklin Lohr, 47, who are wanted for questioning in the Tom Clements homicide investigation. Lohr is described as 6 feet tall, 160 pounds, with blond hair, brown eyes and several tattoos. Guolee is a 31 year old male described as 5 feet 9 inches tall, 160 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes and several tattoos. (AP Photo/El Paso Sheriff)
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. A clerical error allowed Ebel, suspected of killing Colorado?s prisons chief, to be released from custody about four years early, officials said Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections, File)
This undated photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows Thomas Guolee. El Paso County sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer said Wednesday, April 3, 2013 that deputies are seeking Guolee, 31, and 47-year-old James Lohr, members of a white supremacist prison gang, in connection with the death of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements. He says their names surfaced during the investigation and the men could be headed to Nevada or Texas. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)
Tim Hand, director of the Colorado Department of Correction's parole division, answers questions about Evan Spencer Ebel's parole Tuesday April 2, 2013, in Denver,Colo. Ebel slipped his ankle bracelet and fled custody five days after the system first flagged him as being delinquent. Ebel is a suspect in the slaying of DOC corrections director Tom Clements. Parole officers issued an arrest warrant for parole violation for Ebel the day after Clements was shot to death at his front door. Ebel died in a shootout with Texas authorities on March 21. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)
Tim Hand, director of the Colorado Department of Correction's parole division, answers questions about Evan Spencer Ebel's parole Tuesday April 2, 2013, in Denver,Colo. Ebel slipped his ankle bracelet and fled custody five days after the system first flagged him as being delinquent. Ebel is a suspect in the slaying of DOC corrections director Tom Clements. Parole officers issued an arrest warrant for parole violation for Ebel the day after Clements was shot to death at his front door. Ebel died in a shootout with Texas authorities on March 21. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)
DENVER (AP) ? One of two members of a white supremacist gang linked to the killing of Colorado's prisons chief has been arrested just miles from where the state official was shot to death answering the door to his home.
James Lohr was taken into custody early Friday, said El Paso County sheriff's spokesman Jeff Kramer. Lohr was wanted for questioning in the killing of Colorado Corrections Director Tom Clements. It's unclear if Lohr has been charged.
Authorities believe Lohr was in contact with gang associate Evan Ebel days before the slayings of Clements and pizza delivery man Nate Leon. Police said they believe Ebel killed Leon and Clements before he was killed in a shootout in Texas. The motive in the killings isn't clear.
Clements was shot to death on March 19 in Monument, just north of Colorado Springs. Leon was killed two days earlier. His body was found in the Denver suburb of Golden.
KRDO-TV (http://tinyurl.com/d8bj8vt ) reported that Lohr was arrested by Colorado Springs police after a short foot chase that started when police tried to stop a car.
Authorities issued an alert Wednesday asking other law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for Lohr and Thomas Guolee, who were identified as two known associates of the same gang linked to Ebel.
Lohr, 47, and Guolee, 31, have not been called suspects in Clement's death, but their names surfaced during the investigation, Kramer said. He wouldn't elaborate. Both were wanted on warrants unrelated to the Clements investigation.
Lohr and Guolee are known associates of the 211 Crew, the same gang that has been linked to Ebel, Kramer said.
Kramer said earlier it's possible one or both of them could be headed to Nevada or Texas.
According to court records obtained by The Associated Press, Lohr was arrested in 1992 in Colorado Springs after he failed to report to a community corrections center while serving a sentence for attempted criminal mischief.
In 1996, after he pleaded guilty to burglarizing a home, court records show he was ordered to have no contact with his estranged wife after she told police he repeatedly broke into her home and stole items to pawn them.
In 2006, Lohr was charged with burglary with a weapon and assault causing serious bodily injury. Court records show those charged were dismissed because of a lack of evidence.
Lohr was being sought on warrants out of Las Animas County for a bail violation and a violation of a protection order when he was arrested Friday.
Court records show Goulee was arrested in 2001 after a member of the Crips gang told Colorado Springs police he was jumped by Goulee and another gang member because they believed he was a member of a rival gang. The witness told police Goulee and the other gang member punched and kicked him in the face and left him bleeding.
In 2007, Goulee was charged with assault and intimidating a witness while in the El Paso County jail after an inmate said he was assaulted by three men, including Goulee, because they thought he was going to testify against a suspect in another case. El Paso County authorities said the man was beaten so badly he could have been permanently disfigured.
The complete court records were not immediately available, so the outcome of some of those cases is not clear. Authorities have also not released the subject of the warrant out for Goulee.
On Thursday, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced a sweeping review of the state's prison and parole operations as more evidence piled up showing how Ebel slipped through the cracks in the criminal justice system to become a suspect in the killing of the state's prisons chief.
Ebel was released from prison four years early due to a clerical error and violated his parole terms five days Clements was killed.
Officials said the state will now audit inmates' legal cases to ensure they are serving the correct amount of time. They also will ask the National Institute of Corrections to review the state's parole system, which is struggling under large caseloads.
Ebel was killed in a shootout with Texas authorities after the Colorado deaths. Investigators have said the gun Ebel used in the shootout was also used to kill Clements when the prisons chief answered the front door of his home.
Ebel is the only suspect that investigators have named in Clements' death. They have said they're looking into his connection to the gang he joined while in prison, and whether that was connected to the attack.
"Investigators are looking at a lot of different possibilities. We are not stepping out and saying it's a hit or it's not a hit. We're looking at all possible motives," Kramer said Wednesday.
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