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| Five captured after N.C. jail break |
| By Asheville Citizen-Times |
| Published: 03/23/2005 |
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Haywood County (N.C.) Sheriff's deputies arrested four rain-soaked fugitives Tuesday afternoon almost 20 hours after inmates overpowered officers and broke out of the county jail in downtown Waynesville. Six inmates escaped Monday night. One was arrested early Tuesday morning while trying to evade police in a jailer's car. Deputies were still looking for a fugitive late Tuesday night. Tonya M. Goolsby, 24, and Kevin Crawford Gunter, 37, both of Waynesville, surrendered to deputies near the Pilot Truck Stop on N.C. 209 south of Interstate 40 about 1 p.m. Deputies arrested Robert Arthur Webber, 22, of Newport, Tenn., and Clara Michelle Henson, 30, of Canton at 3:15 p.m. on Iron Duff Road after stopping a car they were riding in. Sheriff Tom Alexander said Danny Joe Brooks, 43, of Waynesville, the remaining fugitive, called a friend to pick him and Webber and Henson up. He escaped on foot into the woods after deputies stopped the car. Deputies, Maggie Valley Police Department's K-9 officer and N.C. Highway Patrol troopers were searching the area for Brooks on Tuesday afternoon. Alexander said one inmate told him they had spent the night in a barn near the truck stop. The jailbreak started about 10:30 p.m., when a jailer during a routine check entered the male holding cell on the third floor of the jail to give the inmates a pitcher of water, Alexander said. One of the inmates surprised the jailer. She fought back and started yelling for help. Another inmate jumped into the fray. The inmates overpowered the jailer and another officer, who ran down from the fourth floor to help. The inmates shackled both jailers to a bar and took their cell keys and a set of car keys. The men freed two female inmates and all six fled the jail. |
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