Lorenzo Pollard recaptured within 48 hours after fighting off a dozen guards
(NEWSER) - Lorenzo Pollard really, really wanted to get out of jail. The inmate, 31, escaped a medium-security facility in St. Louis after fighting off some dozen guards with home-made nunchucks fashioned from bedsheets and a chair, according to cops. Pollard used the weapon to smash through glass blocks and then scaled two razor- and barbed-wire fences to make his escape, reports the St. Louis Dispatch . Pollard, who had been in the jail since May on charges of theft, trespassing, property damage, and resisting arrest, was recaptured without incident two nights later. More»
