No Leads in Multistate Manhunt for 3 Escaped Inmates

[Amby 490]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — State and federal authorities are continuing a multistate search for three escaped inmates accused of attacking three men while on the run in Kentucky and stealing a dozen guns, cash and a truck.

Kentucky State Police Trooper Kevin Woosley said Thursday morning there were no updates in the case.

Police have been asked to watch out for the inmates in neighboring Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia and Missouri.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms issued arrest warrants for Jerry Sargent, Christopher Marshall and Bobby Cockerell on firearms charges stemming from the attack on three brothers in northern Kentucky.

The men escaped from the Branchville Correctional Facility in Indiana on Friday after overpowering an employee then cutting through a fence, authorities said.

Authorities said that three days after their escape, the convicts beat three brothers with clubs in the northern Kentucky town of Sanders before stealing the guns and the truck.

The vehicle was described as a dull-green 1998 Ford Ranger with a Kentucky license plate.

There have been no credible sightings of the men since Monday.

"We still have no idea ... as to where they are," said George Huffman, a Lexington-based Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent.

Carroll County Sheriff Ben Smith said they took $7,000 during the robbery in Sanders, about 62 miles northeast of Louisville, and he believes they're no longer in the area.

"They're ready to roll for miles and miles and miles without ... having to stop and rob anything for money," Smith said.

Smith said the men hid in a barn Sunday night at a farm in Sanders before attacking two brothers who lived there and a third who stopped by the house.

After tying the men up, they ransacked the house and fled with the money, clothes, ammunition and the firearms that included a high-powered rifle and several handguns.

One of the three men attacked remained hospitalized Wednesday in serious but stable condition with injuries that included bleeding around the brain, Smith said.

"They beat him pretty good. He's lucky to have survived," Smith said. "I think they were trying to kill him."

At the time of the escape, Sargent was serving 50 years for robbery and criminal confinement, Marshall was serving 50 years for dealing cocaine and Cockerell was serving 20 years for burglary.

The arrest warrants issued this week were on charges of being felons in possession of firearms and possession of stolen firearms.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510743,00.html

I hope they catch these people soon. This prison is very near my family's land (less than 3 miles), and no one will let me go there to go hiking until the men are caught. Last year when inmates escaped, they found our cabins and apparently shacked up there before running away when my cousin checked the CCTV cameras and spotted them. No one lives there and we really only go there on the weekends, it's a few miles off the road and into the woods, so I guess it's a lucky find, if you can find it.

Edited March 26, 2009 by Amby

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[Craneman 2]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — State and federal authorities are continuing a multistate search for three escaped inmates accused of attacking three men while on the run in Kentucky and stealing a dozen guns, cash and a truck.

Kentucky State Police Trooper Kevin Woosley said Thursday morning there were no updates in the case.

Police have been asked to watch out for the inmates in neighboring Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia and Missouri.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms issued arrest warrants for Jerry Sargent, Christopher Marshall and Bobby Cockerell on firearms charges stemming from the attack on three brothers in northern Kentucky.

The men escaped from the Branchville Correctional Facility in Indiana on Friday after overpowering an employee then cutting through a fence, authorities said.

Authorities said that three days after their escape, the convicts beat three brothers with clubs in the northern Kentucky town of Sanders before stealing the guns and the truck.

The vehicle was described as a dull-green 1998 Ford Ranger with a Kentucky license plate.

There have been no credible sightings of the men since Monday.

"We still have no idea ... as to where they are," said George Huffman, a Lexington-based Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent.

Carroll County Sheriff Ben Smith said they took $7,000 during the robbery in Sanders, about 62 miles northeast of Louisville, and he believes they're no longer in the area.

"They're ready to roll for miles and miles and miles without ... having to stop and rob anything for money," Smith said.

Smith said the men hid in a barn Sunday night at a farm in Sanders before attacking two brothers who lived there and a third who stopped by the house.

After tying the men up, they ransacked the house and fled with the money, clothes, ammunition and the firearms that included a high-powered rifle and several handguns.

One of the three men attacked remained hospitalized Wednesday in serious but stable condition with injuries that included bleeding around the brain, Smith said.

"They beat him pretty good. He's lucky to have survived," Smith said. "I think they were trying to kill him."

At the time of the escape, Sargent was serving 50 years for robbery and criminal confinement, Marshall was serving 50 years for dealing cocaine and Cockerell was serving 20 years for burglary.

The arrest warrants issued this week were on charges of being felons in possession of firearms and possession of stolen firearms.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510743,00.html

I hope they catch these people soon. This prison is very near my family's land (less than 3 miles), and no one will let me go there to go hiking until the men are caught. Last year when inmates escaped, they found our cabins and apparently shacked up there before running away when my cousin checked the CCTV cameras and spotted them. No one lives there and we really only go there on the weekends, it's a few miles off the road and into the woods, so I guess it's a lucky find, if you can find it.

The prison is 7 miles due East of my farm in Indiana.

[Amby 490]

Hey we live in Evansville, but we have a lot of land over there. I read they stole a truck in St Croix. Did you hear that?

[Amby 490]

They caught them in rural Nebraska after a 60 mile car chase

[Niels Bohr 72]

So, those three bothers that got clubbed the convicts were carrying guns like they carry their wallets. Nice one!