Inmate uses toilet paper cardboard to escape
cell
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Columbia police have captured an inmate
who allegedly escaped from the Howard County jail using a cardboard
toilet paper holder. Curtis Jones of New Franklin was captured
Wednesday afternoon.
Columbia police officers, who were responding to a tip, went to
where Jones was believed to be located, but he had fled on foot.
Jones was spotted a short time later and taken into custody.
Jones had escaped early Monday. Authorities allege he used the
folded cardboard to jam a door lock to his cell and fled when a
jailer went to another area in the building.
Jones was detained on a theft charge on suspicion of stealing
anhydrous ammonia, a chemical used to manufacture
methamphetamine.
He previously escaped in 1996 from the county's old jail in
Fayette by climbing through a hole in the ceiling.
--AP