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| Escaped inmate captured in Arkansas |
| By Winston-Salem Journal |
| Published: 06/03/2004 |
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One of six inmates who escaped Sunday from the Surry County (N.C.) Jail has been captured in Arkansas, said Chief Deputy Jim McHone in a voicemail message. McHone said the Sheriff's Office had found out about the capture around noon yesterday. He and other officials were unavailable for immediate comment as they are in a meeting about the capture. The inmates escaped by cutting a hole in a cell-block ceiling and crawling along an exhaust-system vent to the roof. The inmates are all fairly thin: four weigh 140 pounds or less, and two weigh 160 pounds, according to jail records. They cut the hole with a tool they had made by breaking a blade off a nail clipper and tying it to a toothbrush with strings from a sheet or blanket. Sheriff Connie Watson said yesterday that the inmates took advantage of a design flaw in the jail, which opened in October 2002. The jail is three stories high where the inmates got onto the roof. They knotted together all six orange jumpsuits to reach a lower level roof, and then crossed that to the roof over the sheriff's office, where it's a drop of about 10 feet or so into grass. All six left their jumpsuits behind, and officials said they believe that the inmates were clad only in underwear as they ran from the building. The inmates had all been awaiting trial. |
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