Five inmates managed to escape from the detention center in Saint-François county, in the American state of Missouri, on Tuesday, January 17.
They are currently still wanted.
In footage from a surveillance camera released by the local sheriff's department, two individuals can be seen running towards what looks like a parking lot, crossing the barrier and leaving in a car, before being quickly joined by three other people.
“Around 7:00 p.m. (…) The detainees forced a secure door.
They then went to the roof of the detention center and jumped down,” the St. Francis Sheriff’s Department says on its Facebook page.
The inmates then broke into a secure parking lot to steal a car, a gray 2009 Scion TC.
“They were last seen on camera footage.
They were heading south,” the authorities added, adding that the escapees no longer wore their orange prison uniforms.
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An investigation is opened and the police have launched a search warrant.
A reward of up to 2,500 and 5,000 dollars per individual is offered to help in their capture.
Three of them, LuJuan Tucker, Aaron Sebastian and Kelly McSean, are sex offenders, authorities said.