Two inmates at a Louisville,
Kentucky, jail could have used a course in knot-tying when authorities
say they plotted an escape using bed sheets.
Officials say the men escaped to
the roof of a minimum-security building Monday night and used a rope
made of bed sheets to climb down about four floors. Metro Corrections
Director Mark Bolton says 29-year-old Matthew Johnson was climbing down
when a knot on the sheets came loose, dropping him about 20 feet. He
then fled.
According to UPI,
Police learned of the escape around 9 p.m., when a hospital worker saw
Johnson climbing down. The second inmate, 37-year-old Christopher
Cornelius, didn’t risk the climb and was found on the roof. Bolton says
Johnson was found hiding in a car during a traffic stop early Tuesday
morning. He injured his ankle and back and remained hospitalized
Tuesday. Both men were in jail on drug charges.
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