Police: Prison Escape Getaway Driver Arrested

INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman police said drove convicted murderer Sarah Pender away from a Rockville prison was arrested Thursday afternoon in Indianapolis, officials said.

Jamie Long, 41, was arrested around 3 p.m. at her home at 5116 E. 9th Street, 6News' Jack Rinehart reported.

Authorities were searching Thursday for Pender, 29.

Police said Pender was driven outside the gates of the Rockville Correctional Facility Monday by corrections officer Scott Spitler. Police said Long then picked Pender up in the parking lot of the prison. Authorities did not say what the relationship was between the two women.

Long was preliminarily charged with aiding an escape.

Spitler was arrested early Tuesday. He was preliminarily charged with assisting a criminal, official misconduct, sexual misconduct and trafficking with an inmate.

"He's embarrassed his family and I feel so ashamed and I feel so bad for those people that trusted him, because he's let everybody down," Spitler's wife, Rhonda Spitler, told the media Thursday. She said she is in the process of filing for divorce.

Pender -- who was serving a 110-year sentence -- is from Nineveh, Ind. and was convicted of murder in Marion County.

Authorities described Pender as white, 5 feet 8 inches tall, about 200 pounds with a medium build and brown hair and blue eyes.

She has a target tattoo on her upper right leg and a faded butterfly tattoo on her chest.

Pender was convicted in the murders of Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman in October 2000.

Police said Pender bought a shotgun that was used to kill her roommates. The victims' bodies were found in a trash bin on the south side of Indianapolis.