The last of four escaped jail inmates was recaptured Monday in North Carolina, officials say.
The four men were in custody in Ohio when they used a "homemade weapon" to overpower corrections officers early Sunday, the Gallia County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook. The inmates managed to escape through a "secured door," officials say.
They got into a nearby car that someone had left for them, reports ABC11, The News & Observer's media partner.
By Monday morning, the group had been tracked to a Red Roof Inn about 375 miles away in Cary, North Carolina.
There, officials caught three of the fugitives, identified as Brynn Martin, Christopher Clemente and Troy McDaniel Jr., according to the town of Cary.
Lawrence Lee III was with the others but "fled from the officers at the time of arrests," the Gallia County Sheriff's Office said.
He was on the run until he was captured in Durham, according to a news release from the city's police department. Officers and U.S. Marshals found him "in the woods near Bacon Street and Hearthside Street," close to Unity Village Park, the release said.
Officials took Lee to the Durham County jail, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a news release.
The other three inmates were taken to the Wake County jail and are waiting to be extradited to Ohio, according to the town of Cary.
This isn't the first time this type of incident has happened at the Gallia County jail, about 100 miles southeast of Columbus.
"One of the fugitives, Brynn K. Martin, 40, had previously escaped from the same jail, the sheriff said," according to The New York Times.
Martin had been charged with breaking and entering, receiving stolen property, two counts of failure to appear and escape; Clemente with for complicity to trafficking in drugs; McDaniel with failure to appear in court for non-support of dependents; Lee with identity fraud, obstructing official business and assault, according to WSAZ in West Virginia.
