The alleged mastermind behind a recent escape at the Bernalillo County (N.M.) Detention Center's West Side lockup wasn't among the six prisoners who made it out, police say: He got sleepy and went to bed instead.
Armed-robbery suspect Christopher Cook, 22, confessed to kicking a hole in the wall of a portable jail building, according to a criminal complaint filed against him in Metropolitan Court.
The complaint added that Cook admitted he was planning to escape, 'but he got tired and fell asleep.'
A half-dozen other inmates took advantage of a hole Cook created to slip out of the building, according to the complaint. The escapees then scaled a pair of 12-foot-high fences topped with razor wire to get to freedom.
All but two of the escapees remained free as of last week: Inmate Edward Tenorio was captured by a Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy last Sunday. The deputy was going to work when he saw the wet, cold man lying in the mud on the side of a roadway.  Joseph Manning, 21, was captured at a home in Cañoncito without incident.
Cook faces a new felony charge of criminal damage to property and has joined Tenorio in the maximum-security section of the main jail downtown.
Both now sport red jumpsuits that have 'high-risk inmate' printed on them.
When asked for more specifics Tuesday about the escape and possible hole-kicking incident at the medium-security lockup, jail Capt. John Van Sickler said he couldn't comment because an administrative investigation is still under way.