Three escaped inmates caught in St. Tammany, fourth still on the loose

[CajunTim]

Can someone please tell me how an alleged murderer escapes from jail?
I like this statement human error has already been ruled out, what a dumb **** if it was anything other than an act of God it was human error. power goes out should have had a human make the descision and install back up generators.
Does government agencies even do What if Studies?


http://blog.nola.com/tpnorthshore/2009/06/three_escaped_inmates_caught_i.html

Timothy Murray remains at large
Three of the four violent criminals who escaped from the St. Tammany Parish jail in Covington Thursday night were caught early Friday morning, authorities said.

A helicopter from Livingston Parish, equipped with a thermal-imaging camera, spotted the three men behind the Walgreens on Collins Boulevard about 1:50 a.m. as law enforcement combed the area. They were quickly surrounded, arrested and returned to jail.

St. Tammany Parish deputies, police dogs and two helicopters are still searching for the fourth man, Timothy Murray, near the Covington facility, Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. George Bonnett said.

Sheriff Jack Strain said the manhunt, which he described as the largest in St. Tammany Parish's history, will continue until Murray, 29, is caught.

Gary Slaydon
"We won't relax until we catch him," said Strain, who described the situation as a every law enforcement agency's nightmare early Friday morning.

Three of the inmates, including Murray, were awaiting trial on murder charges and the fourth was awaiting trial on attempted murder charges, Bonnett said.

Bonnett said residents should report any suspicious activity to the Sheriff's Office by calling 9-1-1.

The three inmates who have been captured are Gary Slaydon, Eric Buras and Jason Gainey, Bonnett said. Deputies at the temporary command post the Sheriff's Office set up in the parking lot of the Winn-Dixie on Collins Boulevard speculated that three had left Murray behind because he was injured in the escape attempt.

Jason Gainey
The Sheriff's Office first learned the men were missing about 9:15 p.m., when they got a call from a resident who said he saw a man in the black and white striped uniform of a jail inmate behind the Winn-Dixie, several blocks away from the jail on Collins Boulevard in Covington, Strain said. A Covington Police officer reported seeing two men in the prison uniforms shortly afterward, he said.

Prison records show all four men were accounted for at 8:50 p.m. and jail officials were about to begin a headcount of prisoners when the first report about the escaped inmate came in, Strain said.

Strain said officials are already investigating how the men broke out of the jail, but he said human error has already been ruled out. The men "defeated the structure of the maximum security section of the jail," Strain said.

Eric Buras
Strain did not elaborate on exactly what the prisoners did to break out of the jail Friday morning but said he would provide additional details when the Sheriff's Office had gathered more information on the escape and found a way to fix the problem they exploited.

More than 200 deputies, representing a third of sworn officers with the Sheriff's Office, along with Covington Police, State Troopers, Covington Police, corrections officials from Washington Parish were called in by early Friday morning. The Livingston Parish helicopter and the St. Tammany Parish helicopter circled north of Covington almost continuously in the early morning hours.

The search included sending deputies door-to-door in neighborhoods near the jail to ensure the escapees were not being sheltered in a home in the area or, worse, holding a family hostage, Strain said. Checkpoints were set up on roads leading from Covington and deputies gave all passing cars a thorough check, including searching their trunks.

Murray, of Henderson, N.C., is accused of beating and strangling Carl Glass Jr., a Slidell-area tree-cutter, during an apparent botched robbery in 2006. He was arrested in Vance County, N.C., two weeks after the murder and eventually indicted on a first-degree murder charge.

 

[Bearco]

I am sure it will end up being blamed on the residents of St Tammany voting against more taxes for the SO.

 

[CajunTim]

Now we make national news
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/19/louisiana.manhunt/index.html

 

[XD-GEM]

Did you notice that one of the 3 who were captured was one of the guys in the Jaume case? Man, we were just talking about that one.

News report I saw earlier today said Livingston Parish SO loaned a helicopter fitted with FLIR gear. That's how they got the 3; the fourth is supposedly bleeding from razor wire injury.

 

[CajunTim]

Did you notice that one of the 3 who were captured was one of the guys in the Jaume case? Man, we were just talking about that one.

News report I saw earlier today said Livingston Parish SO loaned a helicopter fitted with FLIR gear. That's how they got the 3; the fourth is supposedly bleeding from razor wire injury.

I didnt realize that.

 

[Solid]

Doesn't the government run the jail?

 

[CajunTim]

Im seriously thinking of filing a class action lawsuit against the Sherrif's office for negligent infliction of emotional distress. Since their **** dont stink and all and it aint their fault this happened.

 

[Bearco]

Doesn't the government run the jail?

I believe the STPSO runs this one

 

[LACamper]

Ruled out human error = someone screwed up that was the kid of someone important, or who was politically connected, or had blackmail material on someone higher up...

 

[XD-GEM]

Their official line is that the escapees "defeated the structure" and that architects will be brought in to fix the problem.

These escapees probably tunelled into an area between walls or between walls and ceiling and then went through that to an outer wall. They obviously still had to go over the razor wire (#4 is said to be cut rather badly).

This was the method in a famous escape from Alcatraz, IIRC.

 

[CajunTim]

But see if a human can solve the problem human error caused the problem which sounds like a design flaw. It wasnt designed, implemented and constructed by aliens so yes human error was involved in this.

 

[Bearco]

They caught him.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/escaped_convict_timothy_murray.html

Escaped St. Tammany Parish prisoner Timothy Murray has been caught and returned to the jail he busted out of a little more than three days ago, authorities said.

Deputies found Murray about 1 a.m. in a wooded area off Bennett Bridge Road north of Covington, about three miles west of Highway 25, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said in a statement. Details about how authorities found the escapee were not released

 

[CajunTim]

Now we wait for Strain's press release tomorrow to see him do damage control.

Glad he is back behind bars

 

[jmcrawf1]

He was captured about 3 houses down from me on booth rd. off of bennett bridge. The guy whos yard he was in is a sheriff deputy ironically and they found him hiding behind a large burn pile in their yard.


Too close for comfort.

 

[CajunTim]

Too close for comfort.

+1

 

[XD-GEM]

But see if a human can solve the problem human error caused the problem which sounds like a design flaw. It wasnt designed, implemented and constructed by aliens so yes human error was involved in this.

Well, Huey Long said about mechanical voting machines, "If a human can make it, a human can fake it."

So we'll modify that and say if a human can make it, a human can break it.

 

[Dredd]

He was captured about 3 houses down from me on booth rd. off of bennett bridge. The guy whos yard he was in is a sheriff deputy ironically and they found him hiding behind a large burn pile in their yard.


Too close for comfort.

Yeah my buddy lives on pennmill lakes. I told his non gun-owning ass to be alert. Glad he's back in custody.

 

[Bearco]

St. Tammany inmates used tool to escape through jail window

Posted by The Times-Picayune June 25, 2009 1:00PM
The four St. Tammany Parish inmates who escaped the jail last week used a bladeto cut through the caulk around a window in a cell, according to a letter from Sheriff Jack Strain to the Louisiana Sheriff's Association

The men removed caulking around the window and then cut through eight metal bars attaching it to the wall that should have been covered in concrete, Strain said in the letter. They then were able to pulled the barred window into the cell because it was attached with screws that were roughly half the size of the ones that should have been used.

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain will provide additonal details about last week's jail break at an afternoon news conference in the parish jail.

Four men, each accused of murder or attempted, broke out of the jail last Thursday evening. The jail break sparked one of the largest manhunts in St. Tammany Parish history. Three men were caught within hours of the prison break and the fourth was caught two days later.

Strain has said the four men exploited a "design or construction" flaw in the jail to breach its actual structure, but has released few other details about how the men got out of the facility's maximum security wing. When asked about the details of the escape, the sheriff has said he would not provide additional information until alerts were sent out to sheriffs elsewhere in the country.

 

[Bearco]

Inmate's ex-wife booked in June escapes from St. Tammany Parish jail

Posted by St. Tammany bureau, The Times-Picayune July 07, 2009 2:03PM
An Alabama woman has been booked with aiding in the June 18th escape of four inmates from the St. Tammany Parish Jail.


Eric Buras' ex-wife, Claudia Buras, 24, of Irvington, Ala., surrendered to St. Tammany deputies Monday evening in Covington.

She was booked into the St. Tammany Parish jail on one count of introducing contraband into a penal institution and one count of assisting escape. Both are felony offenses, and each count carries a maximum sentence of five years with hard labor.

The investigation into the escape and the events surrounding it led detectives to Claudia Buras, and they learned she and Eric Buras had been in communication regarding the plan.

Investigators discovered evidence at Buras' Alabama residence which linked her to the crime. After being questioned, Buras eventually admitted her role in the plan, St. Tammany Parish sheriff's spokesman George Bonnett said.

According to Buras and Sheriff's Office records, Buras traveled to the jail on June 7th, 2009 to visit her ex-husband. During that visit, two or three hacksaw blades were exchanged by concealing them in the spine of a Bible.

Investigators recovered three blades after the escape.

Buras told investigators she made an earlier attempt to bring the blades to her ex-husband. That attempt, in March of this year, was scuttled for unknown reasons, Bonnett said.