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| St. Clair County inmate recaptured after jail break |
| By Bolivar Herald Free Press |
| Published: 11/17/2003 |
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An inmate who escaped from the St. Clair County, Mo. Jail Friday night was back behind bars 24 hours later because of the sharp eye of a Polk County deputy. Darin Gene Sisco, 36, was in custody on a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He and two other inmates escaped from the jail in Osceola last Friday by climbing out a second-story window using bed sheets tied together. The other two inmates were located that night, but Sisco was not caught until Deputy Jerry Ledford met a suspicious vehicle on Rt. H between Pleasant Hope and Half Way during his routine patrol Saturday night. The brown van, later determined to have been stolen, was creeping slowly along the road, something that didn't seem right to Ledford. A check on the license plate revealed that it belonged to a different vehicle. When the van pulled into a driveway, Ledford turned off his lights and waited nearby. After several minutes, the van came back down the drive, but when the driver saw Ledford, he shifted into reverse. When Ledford pulled up next to the van, he recognized Sisco from a picture on a flyer that had been on his desk when he came on duty that night. There were a few tense moments when Sisco did not immediately obey commands to get out of the van and drop a 2-foot-long fiberglass club he had in his hand. But Ledford was able to handcuff him and place him under arrest without incident. Ledford, who has been with the Polk County Sheriff's Department for only six months, said he was just doing his job. |
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