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Searching for Spears
By Pat Peterson Reporter
Published: Thu, July 17, 2008 - 5:34 pm
Pat Peterson
For nearly ten hours, officers in the air and on the ground searched the North Baldwin County wilderness for three prison escapees. The escapees left a work-release facility in Elmore County Wednesday night and hitch-hiked down to the Gulf Coast. Two of the men were captured just after midnight, but the third fugitive led officers on a dangerous game of cat and mouse through heavily wooded areas and swampland.
"Nobody even told us what was happening," says Stockton resident Robert Brown who lives near the search area. "We saw the officers and the dogs and the helicopter but it was scary. We didn't know what was going on."
Baldwin County Sheriff Hoss Mack says the community was notified about the manhunt.
"We set up roadblocks and checkpoints," says Mack. "We stopped drivers and let them know and we had no idea the search had even shifted to a residential area until there was a sighting of the fugitive."
People living in the Stockton area can sleep a little easier tonight. All three men will be transported back to a North Alabama prison Friday.
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