Law enforcement is currently searching for one of four inmates who escaped the Bent County Jail. The three others were found.
BENT COUNTY — According to the Bent County Office of Emergency Management Facebook page, law enforcement is currently searching for Mark Desmond Fox— one of four inmates who escaped the Bent County Jail. The other three inmates that escaped have been accounted for.
Bent County Sheriff Jake Six told News5 that the inmates escaped on Sunday after they pushed through the sheet rock ceiling in their cell, which used to serve as a kitchen. From there, the inmates escaped through the roof of an adjoining bathroom.
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