Authorities in Mississippi are looking for two detainees who escaped a detention facility Monday morning, just a little over a month after four other men had escaped the same jail
Michael Lewis, 31, and Joseph Spring, 31, were discovered missing from the Raymond Detention Center, about 15 miles west of Jackson, following a head count conducted after a deputy noticed items and “what appeared to be blood” near the facility’s outer perimeter fence, Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said in a news conference. Officers found there had been a breach in the ceiling of one of the facility’s rooms and believe that’s how the two men got out.
“We don’t have any information at this particular time on where these individuals are or where they may have gone after their escape,” Jones told reporters, adding that authorities don’t know if they are armed but that they “should be considered dangerous.” He asked anyone with information to contact law enforcement. Last month, four other escapees The breach comes just over a month after the escape of four other men who breached the same facility and sparked a dayslong manhunt.
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