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| Accused killer caught after jail escape |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/14/2004 |
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An accused killer and fellow inmate were apprehended two hours after they escaped from a jail near the Canadian border Tuesday, officials said. Ernest Gay Jr., 24, who allegedly killed a Quebec couple last year at their Moira farm north of Albany, and Nicholas Trabakoulos, 27, escaped from the Franklin County (N.Y.) Jail around 2:30 p.m., police said. The inmates cut a hole in the chain-link fence around the jail's exercise area, were seen running across an open area, but scaled the perimeter fence and fled into woods before guards reached them, troopers said. Franklin County Sheriff John Pelkey said the pair were spotted when they crossed a field behind the Malone-Dufort Airport shortly before 4:30 p.m. Helicopters from the U.S. Border Patrol and State Police had joined the search. Two investigators from the Franklin County District Attorney's Office and a K-9 unit from the Malone Police Department arrested them without incident, authorities said. The two men were arraigned on felony escape charges, which carry a penalty of seven years in prison. They were returned to the jail in Malone and placed in solitary confinement, police said. Authorities were investigating whether they had help in escaping. They were the first inmates to escape from the jail since it was built in 1994, the Malone Telegram reported. Last month, Trabakoulos, who had been arrested on a felony charge of possession of stolen property, walked out of the Tupper Lake Police Station while in shackles. He was later caught in Connecticut. Gay is facing a potential sentence of life without the possibility of parole in the March 2003 killing of the couple from Kirkland, Que. |
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