Keith Lamar Shepherd, you just got out of Disneyland. What are you going to do now?
You're going back to prison.Which prison, however, may be harder to figure out than Donald Duck's quacky chatter.
Authorities say Shepherd kept busy during the four months since his second escape from a Utah prison. In addition to visits to Southern California's Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, authorities say he went on a six-state crime spree.
Shepherd was released Monday from an Albuquerque hospital, where he was treated for wounds he suffered when an officer shot him in the face during an attempted bank robbery. The notorious Utah inmate is now back in a correctional facility - the Bernalillo County Detention Center in Albuquerque.
Now the six states that consider Shepherd a suspect in one rape and a handful of robberies are jostling for a place in line to prosecute him. But the states are also competing with the FBI. The federal agency is anxious to prosecute him for as many as five bank robberies, which are federal crimes.
"You basically take your number and wait in line," said Flagstaff, Ariz., police Sgt. Gerry Blair. Officers there have looking for the armed man who bound four people during a holdup at a Baskins-Robbins ice cream store in December.
Shepherd was arraigned Tuesday in Metropolitan Court in Albuquerque on charges of attempted armed robbery, kidnapping, aggravated assault and possessing and receiving a stolen firearm. He was bound over to face the charges in District Court.
Shepherd was finally caught when he attempted to rob an Albuquerque bank Friday. He was shot when a police officer said he spotted Shepherd pulling on a ski mask and brandishing a pistol. A shootout ensued, wounding Shep-herd and a hostage.
According to an Albuquerque police report, Shepherd confessed to Friday's bank robbery while he was riding with an officer in an ambulance.
"Shepherd stated that he got shot while trying to rob a bank," the complaint alleges. "Shepherd then gave (the officer) his name because he thought he was going to die."
Shepherd has yet to be charged with the federal crime of bank robbery, said Albuquerque FBI assistant special agent-in-charge Ronald Dick. However, the U.S. District Attorney's Office in New Mexico is planning to take the case before a grand jury to seek an indictment, Dick said.
"(Shepherd) has a long road ahead," Dick said, noting the most likely route the case will take is for Shepherd to first face the New Mexico charges, then the federal charges, then charges from the individual states he has allegedly victimized.
In addition to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, Shepherd is also believed to have spent time in Wyoming, Nevada and Colorado since his escape from the Gunnison Correctional Facility in November.
Two investigators with the Cheyenne, Wyo., Police Department were in Albuquerque interviewing Shepherd Wednesday. A detainer for Shepherd has been filed and charges are pending in connection with the rape of a teenage girl during the robbery of a Cheyenne, Wyo., Baskin-Robbins store, said Cheyenne Police Lt. Marty Luna.
Utah officials spent four days in Albuquerque. Theresa Sargent, an investigator for the Department of Corrections who interviewed Shepherd, said the convicted sex offender "just knew it was inevitable he was going to get caught."
So, in the meantime, Shepherd told her he wanted to see the ocean. He apparently wanted to visit the Magic Kingdom, too.
Investigators found tickets from Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm when they searched through items confiscated from a Motel 6 where Shepherd stayed for nearly a month.
He almost didn't make it out of California, though. Shepherd, 37, was riding a bicycle when he failed to stop at a light and was pulled over by a police officer, he told Sargent. Shepherd gave a false name and, when the officer didn't find anything under that name, Shepherd had his photo taken and was let go.
Shepherd was in California over Christmas and left shortly after New Year's Day, Sargent said.
Lyon County, Nev., Sheriff Sid Smith said Shepherd is considered a suspect in an armed robbery at a Fernley, Nev., truck stop in early January.
But, Nevada officials will go to Albuquerque to question him only if present investigations determine Shepherd was in Nevada at the time of the armed robbery, Smith said.
Shepherd is thought to have arrived in Albuquerque in mid-January. Police suspect he robbed three banks there.
Shepherd escaped from the Gunnison prison Nov. 4 by hiding in the storage compartment of a delivery truck. Three years earlier, he escaped from the prison at the Point of the Mountain and went on a seven-state crime spree before he was arrested four months later in Sparks, Nev.
Utah Corrections officials say as long as Shepherd is in custody - and stays there - where he serves his time now isn't that important.
"We just want him in prison," said Corrections spokesman Jack Ford, adding the state will prosecute so it will be clear to every prison that Shepherd is a high-risk inmate and should he housed accord-ing-ly.
"We are definitely putting a conviction on his record for the escape charge," he said.