Missouri police said Saturday that the five jailbreak inmates who escaped from the St. Francois County Detention Center last week have been located and taken into custody.
The St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department said four of them had been found in Ohio.
“As of this morning, all the escaped prisoners have been located and detained. While Wilkins was captured in Missouri, Pace, Tucker, McSean and Sebastian were located hours later in Ohio,” the department wrote on Facebook.
“The St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department will continue to work with the United States Marshals Service until all inmates are returned to the Detention Center,” he said.
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Inmate Michael Wilkins was captured Friday after he was reportedly seen alone at a Poplar Bluff, Missouri, bar when someone called authorities.
The inmates have been identified as, from left to right, Kelly McSean, 52, Dakota Pace, 26, Michael Wilkins, 42, Aaron Sebastian, 30, and Lujuan Tucker, 37.
(St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department)
Members of the Poplar Bluff Police Department arrested him without incident and investigators from the United States Marshals Service and the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department transported him back to the St. Francois County Detention Center.
He’s being held there without bail.
The others included Kelly McSean, Dakota Pace, Aaron Sebastian and LuJuan Tucker, who escaped from the Farmington jail on Tuesday.
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One of the inmates is seen jogging in the parking lot of a nearby business before his car is stolen, police say, while the other crawls under the fence to enter the parking lot.
(St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department)
Tucker, Sebastian and McSean are known sex offenders “Held for crimes committed while confined at the Missouri Department of Corrections Sex Offender Treatment Center,” the sheriff’s department said. “Dakota Pace and Michael Wilkins were being held on felony warrants.”
Tucker was previously charged with the rape of a 12-year-old girl, while McSean was in custody on charges related to the sexual assault of a 39-year-old woman.
They all fled in a stolen vehicle.
Three other inmates are seen heading towards the stolen vehicle in Farmington, Missouri.
(St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department)
The breakout at the county detention center began around 7 p.m. local time, when the group entered a secure cell and then “passed through a secure door using force.”
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The five inmates stripped out of their orange jail clothes and were seen on surveillance cameras “wearing white thermal leggings, white boxer briefs and/or basketball shorts, and white t-shirts” while “Tucker was wearing a black undershirt.”
Louis Casiano and Greg Norman of Fox News contributed to this report.
