Three inmates at a Missouri county jail were on the run on Tuesday after cutting holes in the plaster ceiling of their cells last week and crawling to a maintenance door that led outside, officials said.
The men—Lance Stephens, 29, Matthew Crawford, 29, and Christopher Blevins, 37—escaped from the Barry County jail in Cassville, about 275 miles southwest of St. Louis, early on Friday morning. Officials offered no information on how long the inmates had been gone before guards noticed they were missing.
The men, who were all acquaintances, are considered armed and dangerous, Barry County Sheriff Danny Boyd told local media.
Neither Boyd nor a sheriff’s representative was available to provide further information on the case. The sheriff told local media there was no indication that the men had any help from jail staff or other inmates….