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CLOVIS, N.M. — Authorities filed charges Wednesday against four Curry County jail inmates for allegedly helping eight inmates break out, while two relatives of the fugitives also were arrested in the investigation.
Five of the escapees remained at large. Three were recaptured within 24 hours of Sunday’s jailbreak.
Authorities said the four inmates, who were not among the escapees, face six charges each: three counts of assisting escape and three counts of harboring or aiding a felon.
Investigators believe it took the inmates seven hours to cut through the jail’s roof, apparently the culmination of a two- or three-day planning effort. They said five prisoners came from one jail pod and three from another.
