EKB News

Freedom was short-lived for 19 year old Jeremy Sescourka who was recaptured just after 1:00 P.M. Monday (today) after escaping from the Wayne County Jail around 4:30 A.M. when jail employees opened a cell door to perform a medical test on an inmate. Authorities say Sescourka and another inmate, Joe Cook, had planned the escape, and, when the door was opened, the two darted out the door and into a nearby control room where Sescourka punched female Deputy Jailer Sherry Kelsay in the face while taking her hostage and threatening her with a makeshift knife. When the inmates failed to open the jail doors from the control room, Sescourka held the knife to Kelsay's throat while dragging her toward a door. A supervisor opened the door in an effort to free her, but the door closed before Cook could escape. Sescourka had been in jail since March on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, second-degree escape and tampering with a prisoner monitoring device.