Prison escape foiled after staff find trail of bed sheets hanging from window!

Posted by: admin , August 25, 2015

I thought this only happened in movies!
An attempt by inmates to escape from Spokane County Jail in Eastern Washington was foiled when authorities spotted a 100-foot trail of knotted bed sheets hanging from a cell window!
Ken Coburn, who was working out a nearby gym, says he was surprised to see a “whole bunch of sheets tied together”, musing that it’s the oldest trick in the book, next to putting the file in the cake!
It’s reported that one of the inmates is James Henrikson, who (along with his cellmate) was moved to another part of the jail following this incident. Henrikson is the suspect in a murder-for-hire plot.
Inmates reportedly have regular access to clean bed linen and dirty laundry hampers, which might explain the amount of bed sheets sourced for the attempt.
According to Spokane County Jail officials, it is not clear if one or both of the inmates were involved in the escape plot.
The FBI is now investigating.