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| Escaped Texas County Inmates Recaptured |
| By AP |
| Published: 06/17/2003 |
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Three men who earlier in the day had escaped from the Parker County Jail in Texas were captured Saturday afternoon at a residence after authorities spotted a pickup believed to have been used after the breakout. James Douglas Holden, 37, surrendered outside the house when sheriff's deputies and state officers swarmed the residence about 4 p.m. Saturday. Wesley Eugene Hilton, 41, and Michael Ray West, 35, were believed to have holed up in an attic. They were taken into custody about 6:30 p.m., authorities said. Parker County Sheriff Jay Brown said the inmates escaped about 3:30 a.m. Saturday after working bars loose over an air conditioning duct and climbing through the duct to the roof. From there, he said, they took off their jail clothes, jumped 15 feet to the ground and fled wearing only their boxer shorts. Tracks indicated a vehicle pulled up to the corner of the building and left with the fugitives, the sheriff said. Officers discovered the three missing about 3:45 a.m., Brown said. Three other inmates who shared the cell with the escapees told investigators they knew about the breakout plans but feared retaliation if they told jail officials, The Dallas Morning News reported in Sunday editions. The escapees had been working on the bars for about six weeks, the other inmates said. Sheriff's deputies spent part of Saturday questioning visitors to the inmates or anyone who might have spoken to them by telephone. Brown said he believed that phone conversations were taped and that investigators would review those tapes. Hilton was arrested in April in the slaying of car salesman Robert Pounds, whose body, throat slashed, was found in the driveway of his home in the same neighborhood as the residence where the inmates were re-arrested on Saturday. The house is in a remote part of Tarrant County. West was moved in April to the Parker County Jail, where he was serving a 50-year sentence on burglary charges. He escaped last year from the Hood County Jail in Granbury and remained free for five days. He attempted to escape from a state prison facility in 1991. Holden was in Parker County Jail on narcotics charges. Authorities had revoked his parole following an assault charge, said Larry Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. |
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