KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 21, CMC – The nine detainees were escaped from the Constant Spring Police lock-up in the Corporate Area on Tuesday are back in custody.
In an update Thursday morning, the Jamaica Constabulary Force said the last escapee, 19-year-old Alonzo Espute, who was charged with murder, surrendered to the police.
The JCF had launched an island-wide manhunt in search of eight of the men who had managed to leave the station compound after reportedly cutting open their cell.
The men were discovered missing about 1 a.m.(local time) Tuesday during routine checks.
The search took investigators to three police divisions.
Meanwhile, the police have also charged a woman with harbouring a fugitive following the recapture of one of the escapees, Talik Chamber’s on Wednesday.
Chambers was found in the company of a 21-year-old woman during an operation in the central parish of St Catherine .
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