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Pembroke kidnapper flees jail
3 inmates at large after weekend escape
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Cecil Red Dewitt Nelson
SWAINSBORO — Three suspects, including a man who pleaded guilty in two Bryan County kidnappings that happened last winter, remained at large after six inmates escaped from the Emanuel County Jail over the weekend, authorities said. Another of the escapees who broke out of the jail Saturday night is a man accused of murder, The Augusta Chronicle reported. The men escaped around 11 p.m. through a door into a plumbing mechanical area in the jail, Emanuel County Sheriff Tyson Stephens said.
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