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| Indiana County Inmates Captured After Jail Break |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/06/2003 |
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Jennings County, Ind., sheriff's deputies captured three inmates within hours after the trio escaped from the Jennings County Jail through an exhaust vent. The Friday night escape occurred after an inmate summoned a jailer and complained that he was ill, police said. The convicts broke out as the jailer called an ambulance. Three men used a jail door as a ladder to reach a 9-foot-high maintenance hatch in the jail's general inmate population area. They then crawled through an exhaust vent and came to a second maintenance door. That door's latch malfunctioned, allowing the inmates to open the door and escape. Jeremy Hilton, 28, who was being held on a probation violation, was captured within five minutes when a sheriff's deputy drove by and spotted him, authorities said. Sheriff's deputies, North Vernon police and an Indiana State Police helicopter searched the county most of the night. The two remaining escaped convicts were arrested about 6 a.m. Saturday at a rural house they were hiding at. Larry Burdine, 31, of Seymour, had been held on forgery charges, and James Bennett, 32, of Country Squire Lakes, was being held for child molestation. All three men will face escape charges. |
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