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| Escape attempt foiled in Wash. |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/31/2004 |
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Two men being held in unrelated murder cases tried to use a homemade screwdriver to unfasten a screen and escape from the Pierce County (Wash.) Jail, officials say. Scotty James Butters, 21, and Jeremy Alan Hosford, 25, have been in solitary confinement as escape risks since the discovery earlier this month, sheriff's deputies said. An officer noticed something amiss in their cell May 7 and found they had been using a screwdriver fashioned from a 9-inch toilet bolt to loosen the fastenings on a screen over their cell window, sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said. The screen, however, is mostly decorative, and there would still have been glass, cement and rebar blocking the inmates' way, Troyer said. "There is no chance of escape unless they could have managed to get out of a 5-inch hole," he said. Butters is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the death of a homeless Tacoma man last year as part of a white supremacist gang initiation. Hosford is one of two men charged with aggravated first-degree murder in the robbery, abduction and death of Robert C. Shapel, 55, a Snap-On Tools sales representative, in February. |
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