Two convicts in a Virginia prison used crude tools to make a hole in the wall of their cell and escape, the sheriff said. They were successively discovered nearby at an IHOP restaurant.
According to a statement from the Newport News Sheriff's Office, during a routine head count on Monday evening, authorities found the two men, ages 37 and 43, absent from their cell at the Newport News jail annex.
According to a preliminary inquiry, the men exploited loopholes in the jail's building and used tools created from a toothbrush and a metal object to reach rebars between the walls of the jail and then used the rebar to continue their escape, the statement added. They scaled a containment wall surrounding the jail after fleeing their cell.
The men were captured again early on Tuesday at an IHOP in Hampton after other customers called the police in response to an appeal by authorities for help in locating them.
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