The Woodward News

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September 22, 2009

Escapees to face charges

Two inmates who escaped from William S. Key Correctional Center early Sunday morning made it to Logan County before being recaptured.

Jacob Nelson, 20, and Brandon Boggess, 22, were caught by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol in Guthrie on Sunday afternoon after Nelson’s mother and step-father alerted authorities that the two men were outside their home, a prison official said.

The two men are now being held in the medium security James Crabtree Correctional Center in Helena.

According to Linda Eike, public information officer for William S. Key, Nelson and Boggess were discovered missing around 3 a.m. Sunday.

“We do a count every hour after midnight, and when we did the 3 a.m. count, they weren’t there,” Eike said. “They just walked away from our facility. We’re a minimum security prison.”

During their escape Eike said the two stole a blue 2000 Chevy extended cab, which contained two guns.

“To my knowledge they did not use the weapons,” she said.

After the two men were found missing, “we implemented our escape procedures and called people who knew them,” she said. “The mother and step-father called and said the (two escapees) were outside their home and that they didn’t let them in.”

In the meantime, Eike said the men had traveled on until the truck ran out of gas, prompting them to call an uncle. A farmer helped them with their gas but by that time the Oklahoma Highway Patrol had the area surrounded, she said.

The two men were returned to the custody of William S. Key, where they were examined for injuries as part of procedure, she said.

They were then transferred to James Crabtree Correctional Center, Eike said.

She said escape charges against the two men were filed Monday and that they would be brought back to Woodward County for arraignment.

“It will be up to the district attorney to prosecute them,” she said.

Nelson was scheduled for release from William S. Key in 2015 on burglary and larceny convictions in Logan County. Boggess was scheduled for release in 2013 on forgery, burglary, larceny and drug convictions in Oklahoma and Pittsburg counties.

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