Last Of Four Jail Escapees Caught
POSTED: 12:36 pm EDT May 2, 2006
UPDATED: 6:40 pm EDT May 2, 2006
NORTH VERNON, Ind. -- 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.
Slideshow: Jennings County Jail Escapees
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