Prison Break: Inmates Escape Crawling Through Jail’s Plumbing System

An audacious plot by inmates at an American prison has seen a nationwide manhunt launched after four cons escaped through the jail’s plumbing system.
The men managed to get a clean getaway after prying open a maintenance hatch in the shower block and crawling through the water ducts.
When they reached a wall, they knocked out a cement block which led to an unlocked door outside the prison area.
“All they had to do was push the door and walk out because it’s not in the jail,” said Caddo County Sheriff Gene Cain.
They apparently kept their clothes on in the shower.
In a statement police said: “Caddo County Detention Centre had four inmates escape from the detention centre through the trap door above the shower and then into the pipe chase and out the pipe chase door.”
Authorities only realised something was amiss when they received a call around 2:40am on Sunday reporting that “four suspicious-looking men in orange jumpsuits” were walking near the jail.
An alert was put out for Dylan Ray Three Irons, 21, Prime Tounwin Brown, 23, Anthony James Mendonca, 24, and Triston Cheadle, 32.

The men were last seen about one block from Caddo County Detention Centre wearing their orange prison uniforms which were later found discarded.
According to Oklahoma Department of Correction records, Cheadle was charged with robbery with firearms. He was also awaiting sentencing on a separate charge of possession of methamphetamine.
The other three men were already sentenced and were waiting to be transported to the state Department of Corrections.
Mendonca had been charged with carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest. Three Irons was charged with a probation violation and Tounwin Brown with second degree burglary, Sheriff Smith said.
A prison source said: “All neighbouring forces have been alerted to the escapees. We are actively looking for the men.
“Their escape seems as easy as it does daring. There are several red faces at the prison and the Governor is fuming.”