Posted on 12/02/2006 4:32:57 PM PST by Graybeard58
LAUREL, Miss. — Jones County authorities are crediting two inmates with thwarting the escape attempt of a third. Sheriff Larry Dykes said a trusty at the jail, Danny Lamar Odom, 47, bolted Thursday from a work crew toward a field behind the jail.
Dykes said Odom had been working in the kitchen and was helping unload food boxes from a delivery truck when the attempted escape occurred.
Dykes said two younger trusties, Reginald Ducksworth and Jacob Lambert, also were helping unload the truck. They chased down Odom and brought him back to the jail.
"I've never heard of anything like this before and probably never will again," Dykes said.
Ducksworth and Lambert normally wash cars for police, Highway Patrol and sheriff's department patrol units, Dykes said. As trusties, they do chores in and around the jail in south Mississippi.
Lambert told the Laurel Leader-Call that Odom "just took off and started running."
"I turned to the duty officer and asked him if we should go after him and he said, 'Go get him,'" Lambert said.
Odom ran about 150 yards before Ducksworth and Lambert caught him just inside the field.
Odom was serving time for possession of a firearm by an ex-felon. Dykes said felony fleeing is being added to his list of offenses, and the newest charge likely would add about five more years to his sentence.
"He's tried to escape before, years ago when he was being held here," Dykes said. "I guess he's gotten older than he thought he was."
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Those two wont might have improved their standing with the staff, but the other inmates might shank them now.
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"Dykes said two younger trusties, Reginald Ducksworth and Jacob Lambert, also were helping unload the truck. They chased down Odom and brought him back to the jail.
"I've never heard of anything like this before and probably never will again," Dykes said."
Despite the spelling, which some here seem to be anal about, this makes me PROUD.
True, since they'll be considered as guaranteed snitches by the other inmates. Their safety just became that much less.
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