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| Inmates help rescue officer taken hostage in standoff |
| By Chicago Tribune |
| Published: 08/16/2004 |
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Inmates helped rescue an officer taken hostage by four other inmates at a regional Virginia jail, ending a four-hour standoff, officials said. Two officers taken hostage, ages 25 and 70, suffered bruises and contusions in the standoff at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail early Saturday. Their names were not released. The 70-year-old officer was jumped by inmates while on routine duty, said Col. Ronald Matthews, the jail's superintendent. The inmates grabbed the younger officer when he checked on his colleague. The four inmates kept the officers in a cell and unsuccessfully attempted to escape by breaking out a reinforced window. Albemarle County police began negotiating with the hostage-takers, who released the older officer for medical reasons after about an hour. The 25-year-old officer was freed after four to six inmates in an adjoining cellblock grabbed one of the hostage-takers and held him down. "They were the ones that ended it," Matthews said. The younger officer was treated and released at the University of Virginia Medical Center, where the older officer was being kept for observation. The four inmates were charged with attempting to escape, abduction and felonious assault, among other crimes. |
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