A man convicted of attempted murder pulled a bold stunt when he walked out of court during a break and hitched a ride home with a juror on the case!
Now Madreiekus Blakes is at large and authorities are desperately trying to track his whereabouts.
The 32-year-old Arkansas man was convicted on two counts of attempted first-degree murder as well as four counts of committing a terroristic act, which stems back to a shooting incident last year, KTHV reported.
On Tuesday Blakes was spotted leaving the courthouse parking lot during recess. (It is not clear why he wasn’t in custody at that time.) He was reportedly traveling in an orange Camaro believed to belong to an unnamed juror, who later admitted to driving Blakes home but insisted they did not discuss details of the case.
Blakes will face additional charges upon his re-arrest.
Blakes' move was bold but there have been several other notable prison escapes over the years.
There is the story of how John Dillinger allegedly broke free after forcing his way out with a fake gun carved from wood, and of how Frank Lee Morris and his brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped Alcatraz in 1962 via a hand-dug tunnel, InsideHook noted.
There was also the more recent incident in which 12 inmates in Alabama escaped from the Walker County Jail in 2017 after using peanut butter to conceal the markings of a door in order to confuse the guard into believing he was opening the cell door not the exit door for them.
They then used prison blankets to scale the fence, InTime reported. They did not get very far though. The inmates were arrested 12 hours later.
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