LANCASTER, OH (AP) -
Police say an inmate who apparently escaped from a jail facility in southeast Ohio put socks on his hands to protect himself as he climbed a barbed wire fence.
Fairfield County Sheriff's Lt. Tim Voris said Tuesday that prisoner Jeremiah Searles was discovered missing shortly before midnight after a headcount at the jail about 30 miles southeast of Columbus.
Voris said the 31-year-old Searles was being held at the jail annex on local charges of obstruction, falsification, criminal trespass and possession of narcotics.
Voris said Searles was also being held on a St. Joseph, MO warrant for deviant sexual assault.
A search by state and local police and local prison officials is continuing.
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