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On the 26th June 2019 James Bartholomew escaped from Grays Harbor County Jail, USA by hiding in a large rubbish bin, which was taken outside the walls of the jail by another prisoner. He was preparing to plea to a drug and a weapon offense and was facing a lengthy prison sentence. After being on the run for nearly a month, he was finally apprehended on July 19th found to be carrying substances believed to be heroin and methamphetamine. He now adds various charges including escape and drug charges to his original offenses. And this is not the first time using this method. In 2018 in Kentucky two prisoners escaped jail by hiding in wheelie bins. They were soon apprehended but their escape was caught on
cctv footage and soon went viral causing acute embarrassment to the authorities. Richard Lee McNair an infamous prison “escape artist” mailed himself out of prison in a crate in April 2006 – he was captured in October 2007 and is now back in jail. McNair previously used lip balm to squeeze out of handcuffs to escape, and on another occasion slipped through a ventilation shaft. In 2001 Joaquín Guzmán Loera (El Chapo) the notorious drug
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