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| Officials scour area for inmate |
| By Muskogee Daily Phoenix |
| Published: 05/31/2005 |
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A massive manhunt was on Monday for a state prison inmate who escaped the Wagoner County (Okla.) Jail about 1 a.m., after making a shiv from a mop bucket and overpowering a jailer, Wagoner County Sheriff Johnny Cannon said. Charles Edward Moore Jr., 21, had been transported from Oklahoma State Reformatory at Granite to face a January charge of attempted escape from Wagoner County Jail. Law enforcement combed the area between Jess Dunn Correctional Center and Oklahoma 16 looking for Moore, who Cannon said is considered armed and dangerous. Moore is a 5 foot, 7 inch black male weighing 180 pounds. He also had armed himself with a homemade shiv when he escaped from the jail earlier "and tried to go out a window he couldn't go out of," Cannon said. This time, Moore held a shiv to 21-year-old detention officer Daniel Millard's neck and then to his ribs until they reached the kitchen door of the jail and Moore took off, Cannon said. Millard, who has three months' experience, was not injured, Cannon said. The shiv Moore fashioned was found in an abandoned car he is believed to have stolen near Wagoner, said Wagoner County Deputy Sgt. Kelly Burke. The vehicle had been hot-wired but was disabled when lawmen found it on a county road off Oklahoma 16 near Jess Dunn, Burke said. A Jess Dunn corporal on her way to work Monday about 7:30 a.m. noticed a man walking on Oklahoma 16 about a mile west of the big bull statue on Pecan Ranch, said Lt. Tim Thomason of Jess Dunn. The corporal had heard of no escapes, but stopped and questioned the man in sunglasses because he was wearing a navy blue sweat shirt with a hood that appeared to be way too small for him, like a child's "hoodie," Thomason said. The man told the officer he was on his way to Haskell to visit a friend, Cannon said. "The officer later positively identified the man as Moore from a picture after they found an abandoned vehicle just east of here," Burke said. "Since he left the shiv in the car, we're going to assume that he does have another weapon and is armed and dangerous." When Moore left the jail, he had been wearing gray sweat pants cut off at the knees, white tennis shoes and a white T-shirt, Burke said. Department of Corrections records show Moore was convicted in August 2000 for possession of a stolen vehicle in Wagoner County. In July 2001, he was convicted of possession of a firearm by a minor after being adjudicated delinquent on a felony. In October 2004, he was convicted of possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony, two kidnapping counts, and two counts of robbery with a firearm. Moore also has used the alias Charles or Demarco Bell and Charles Demarco, records show. |
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