SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — Two escapees from the Sallisaw City Jail are back in custody after being free for less than two hours.
Timothy Sumpter and Matthew Long escaped about 10:45 a.m. Wednesday through a door that Police Chief Shaloa Edwards says may have malfunctioned. Edwards says police learned of the escape within 30 seconds.
Long was being held for public intoxication and on a Van Buren, Ark., warrant for theft of property. Sumpter had been arrested on warrants to revoke a suspended sentence.
Police say Sumpter was found within 30 minutes hiding in an attic of a house about six blocks from the jail.
Long was found walking near Marble City about an hour-and-a-half hours after the escape.
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Information from: Southwest Times Record, http://www.swtimes.com/
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August 6, 2009
Sallisaw jail escapees recaptured
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