By StaffWriters
Panama City - Two women, who escaped from a county road crew Monday, are back behind bars. Their brief taste of freedom didn't last very long. The women were part of an inmate work details, cleaning the Bay County Sheriff's Office Cedar Grove Crime Prevention Office.
Investigators say they made a run for it as they were taking out a load of trash. Around 12:30 Monday afternoon Janet Barefoot and Michelle Marcinkewicz saw an opportunity, and took it. They ran from an inmate work program. A by-stander spotted the woman running away from the facility and alerted the guards.
"This was absolutely no one's fault. You can't blame it on anyone except the two girls that were stupid enough to run out the back door," said Sheriff Frank McKeithen.
With a chopper in the sky and K-9 dogs on the ground, deputies scoured the wooded area where the women ran. They had some help from witnesses. Brian Kuczenski and his son were playing in their front when they spotted the two women who had removed their stripped shirts and we're now heading for the woods next to his home.
"We saw two girls running through the woods. I ran over told the sheriff that I saw them run that way and about two or three minutes later they had them in custody," said Kuczenski.
"It was quite thick, quite bushy, briers, wet, nasty, so they paid for they little hike, their pretty nasty and cut up," said McKeithen.
Both the women were originally in jail for misdemeanors, violating probation and battery, but both now face felony escape charges.
"We've been researching a statue for felony stupid, but unfortunately we can't find one, so we're just going to have to charge them with escape right now," said McKeithen.
School officials locked down Cedar Grove Elementary during the 45 minute search. The sheriff's office says they are still investigating whether or not the women had planned the escape ahead of time.
Investigators say they made a run for it as they were taking out a load of trash. Around 12:30 Monday afternoon Janet Barefoot and Michelle Marcinkewicz saw an opportunity, and took it. They ran from an inmate work program. A by-stander spotted the woman running away from the facility and alerted the guards.
With a chopper in the sky and K-9 dogs on the ground, deputies scoured the wooded area where the women ran. They had some help from witnesses. Brian Kuczenski and his son were playing in their front when they spotted the two women who had removed their stripped shirts and we're now heading for the woods next to his home.
"We saw two girls running through the woods. I ran over told the sheriff that I saw them run that way and about two or three minutes later they had them in custody," said Kuczenski.
"It was quite thick, quite bushy, briers, wet, nasty, so they paid for they little hike, their pretty nasty and cut up," said McKeithen.
Both the women were originally in jail for misdemeanors, violating probation and battery, but both now face felony escape charges.
"We've been researching a statue for felony stupid, but unfortunately we can't find one, so we're just going to have to charge them with escape right now," said McKeithen.
School officials locked down Cedar Grove Elementary during the 45 minute search. The sheriff's office says they are still investigating whether or not the women had planned the escape ahead of time.
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