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Last Of Four Jail Escapees Caught

POSTED: 12:36 pm EDT May 2, 2006
UPDATED: 6:40 pm EDT May 2, 2006

Kentucky authorities this week captured the last remaining free men among four inmates who had escaped from a southern Indiana jail in April.

Gerald G. Perkins, 30, was arrested in Kentucky, authorities said.

Two others, Jeffrey Boggs and Robert S. Pickett, were apprehended during a traffic stop early Tuesday in Corbin, Ky., about 25 miles north of the Tennessee line, according to the Jennings County (Ind.) Sheriff's Department.


Slideshow: Jennings County Jail Escapees

Marion County sheriff's deputies arrested David Fields, 36, a day after the April 23 escape. He had been serving time on a burglary conviction.

Boggs and Pickett had been jailed on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine. Perkins faces a bench warrant from Jennings County and a felony warrant out of Ohio.

All four escaped from the Jennings County jail in North Vernon, about 50 miles southeast of Indianapolis, by jumping through the window they smashed out with a piece of metal, police said. Boggs and Pickett were caught about 165 miles from where they escaped.


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