Five inmates who escaped jail by removing a sink and climbing through a wall have been returned to jail.
The prisoners managed to flee St. Francois County Jail in Farmington, Missouri, US on January 17 after making their way into a cell that was supposed to be closed off due to plumbing repairs.
Chief Sheriff's Deputy Gregory Armstrong said the inmates removed the sink and toilet, climbed through the wall and made it down from the roof using a ladder that a builder had left standing against the jail.
Staff were unaware of the escape as CCTV footage, which would have shown the inmates leaving, had been taking down due to the building work.
Once the prisoners fled the jail, they ran to an office near a car park and found a car with keys in it, along with a full tank of petrol.
LuJuan Tucker, 37, Aaron Sebastian, 30, Kelly McSean, 52, Dakota Pace, 26, and Michael Wilkins, 40, had removed their orange inmate prisoners' clothing and were wearing “white thermal leggings, white boxer and/or basketball shorts and white t-shirts."
All of the five inmates were being held on felony charges.
Police launched a desperate appeal to find the inmates and managed to find one at a second-hand retail store in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, on Friday morning.
The other four were apprehended in Ohio on Friday and Saturday.
The sheriff's department later revealed that all five prisoners, who have extensive criminal records, had been recaptured by Saturday afternoon and returned to jail.
Sheriff Armstrong said: "They just got lucky. It's a black eye, of course, that we didn't want. Sometimes things happen.”
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said police tried to stop a suspected stolen car in Fairfield Township on Friday evening.
The car fled and after a short chase, four people got out of it and ran.
Cops quickly captured two of them and arrested a third in West Chester Township at around 2 a.m on Saturday.
After police received a report of a suspicious person in Liberty Township, a bloodhound was despatched and found a parked car where the fourth inmate was discovered.
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said the inmate was found hiding in the backseat of a car.
