One of three inmates who escaped a Missouri jail last week by cutting holes in the plaster ceiling of their cells has been captured nearly 1,000 miles away in Wyoming, a county sheriff said.
Christopher Blevins, 37, was taken into custody on Wednesday in Casper, Wyoming, about 950 miles northwest of the Cassville, Missouri, jail where he and fellow inmates Lance Stephens, 29, and Matthew Crawford, 29, escaped on Friday, the Barry County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook.
The men cut holes in the ceiling of their cells and crawled to a maintenance door that led outside, officials told local media. Officials offered no information on how long the inmates had been gone before guards noticed they were missing from the jail about 275 miles southwest of St. Louis….