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FBI: Fake bars found after high-rise jail escape

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POSTED December 18, 2012 7:02 p.m.




 

CHICAGO (AP) — The FBI says window prison bars were found inside a mattress in the cell belonging to two bank robbers who escaped from downtown Chicago's high-rise jail.

Tuesday morning's daring escape has prompted a massive manhunt for Joseph "Jose" Banks and Kenneth Conley.

The two men apparently squeezed through a narrow window and scaled down about 20 stories using a rope possibly made of knotted bed sheets.

An FBI affidavit filed late Tuesday says the men shared a cell, and that their beds contained clothing and sheets stuffed under a blanket that appeared to look like a body.

The affidavit says fake metal bars also were found in the cell, and that the cell's window was broken and had makeshift rope tied to its bars.

 

Dec. 18, 2012 07:02p.m. EST FBI: Fake bars found after high-rise jail escape Manteca Bulletin


 

CHICAGO (AP) — The FBI says window prison bars were found inside a mattress in the cell belonging to two bank robbers who escaped from downtown Chicago's high-rise jail.

Tuesday morning's daring escape has prompted a massive manhunt for Joseph "Jose" Banks and Kenneth Conley.

The two men apparently squeezed through a narrow window and scaled down about 20 stories using a rope possibly made of knotted bed sheets.

An FBI affidavit filed late Tuesday says the men shared a cell, and that their beds contained clothing and sheets stuffed under a blanket that appeared to look like a body.

The affidavit says fake metal bars also were found in the cell, and that the cell's window was broken and had makeshift rope tied to its bars.

 

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