Three of four Ohio escaped inmates from county jail have been recaptured.
Authorities in Ohio confirmed that three of four inmates who had escaped from a county jail were captured in North Carolina on Monday.100 miles south of Columbus near the West Virginia border, when they overpowered two female corrections officers to escape just after midnight on Sunday. The men fashioned a shank and were able to force open a secured door, the Gallia County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Brynn Martin, 40, Christopher Clemente, 24, Troy McDaniel Jr., 30, and Lawrence Lee III, 29, worked together and stole the keys to one of the corrections officers' vehicles, county sheriff Matt Champlin said in a news conference on Sunday. By Monday morning, McDaniel, Martin and Clemente were caught and detained, according to the Gallia County sheriff. NBC News' local affiliate WCMH reported that the men were found at a hotel in a shopping center in Cary, North Carolina.Brynn Martin; Christopher Clemente; Troy McDaniel and Lawrence Lee escaped from the Gallia County Jail in Ohio.The men had help from at least one outsider who met up with the inmates after the four drove out of the jail in a stolen vehicle, Champlain said.
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