Two men who escaped jail arrested hours later at nearby restaurant

Two
inmates who used primitively made tools to create a hole in the wall of their
cell and escape in the US state of Virginia were found just hours later at a
nearby restaurant.

The
Associated Press reports that the two men, ages 37 and 43, went missing from
their cell in the Newport News jail annex during a routine head count Monday
evening.

Sheriffs
said after investigations, they found the men exploited a weakness in the
jail’s construction design and used tools made from a toothbrush and a metal
object to access rebars between the walls.

They
are said to have used the rebar to further their escape, where after escaping
their cell, they scaled a containment wall around the jail.

The
two were taken into custody again on Tuesday at an IHOP in Hampton after other
patrons called the police.

Authorities
are yet to press charges related to the escape on the duo, the sheriff said.