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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Previously On Prison Break

It's official: New Jersey can't do anything right.
(CNN) -- Two inmates at New Jersey's Union County Jail made a movie-style escape Saturday and remained at large Monday, according to Union County Prosecutor Ted Romanko.

Twenty-year-old Jose Espinosa and 32-year-old Otis Blunt, who are considered armed and dangerous, were discovered missing from their cells at about 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Romanko said. The men left behind dummies in their beds, cinder block dust and a note wishing authorities "Happy Holidays."

Police said Espinosa and Blunt were in adjacent cells and used a long metal wire to scrape away mortar around the cinder block between their cells and the outer wall in Espinosa's cell. Once the cement block between the cells was removed, they smashed the block hid the pieces in a footlocker. According to police, Blunt, who is 5 feet 10 inches and weighs 210 pounds, squeezed into Espinosa's cell through an approximately 16- to 18-inch hole.

"Thank you officer -------- for the tools needed, you're a real pal, Happy Holidays," the note read, with a smiley face drawn next to it. (H/T - CNN)
Nice. I guess this puts a damper on jerkass Governor Corzine's "Era of Good Feeling" after his abolition of the death penalty. Somehow, I don't think the lights on Rome's Colosseum will be much comfort with two dangerous felons roaming his streets.

(Captain America scooped me on this story HERE.)

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