Murder suspect escapes 12-storey prison by tying bedsheets together
A murder suspect has been captured after using sheets tied together to escape from a 12th-floor cell in a US jail.
Authorities said Pablo Robledo, 34, fled Oklahoma County Jail with his cellmate, Jose Hernandez, early on Friday morning.
Mr Hernandez was found and arrested just before 7am after falling or jumping from the fourth floor and breaking his leg, according to local news broadcaster KOCO.
Mr Robledo was found and arrested that afternoon in Oklahoma City.
He had been in custody since June 2019 awaiting trial for first-degree murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and misdemeanour domestic abuse.
The prison’s spokesperson, Mac Mulling, said the men appeared to have thrown a mattress from the building before their escape, and that Mr Robledo was visible on CCTV inside the facility at around 5.30am on Friday.
The $52 million (£40 million) jail was built in 1991 and is designed to house 1,200 prisoners over 13 floors.
According to KOCO, architects said the facility was escape-proof by design – yet two inmates escaped on separate occasions within months.
One of them, a 27-year-old named Bill Linville used a mop handle to break through a second-floor window and used knotted sheets to descend, according to the Oklahoman.
Authorities did not say how Mr Robledo and Mr Hernandez managed to break their window.
Their makeshift rope could still be seen in pictures and footage of the jail taken later on Friday.
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