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Inmates Captured At Gunpoint Following Escape

Last updated on Thursday, June 9, 2011

(COLUMBUS, IN) - Police say two inmates that escaped from a Bartholomew County Jail work crew Wednesday were found less than four hours later in Jennings County.

28-year-old Robert Norton III and 26-year-old Bruce Martin, both of Columbus, slipped away at the Bartholomew County Highway Department Garage on State Street.

The two were later spotted at Country Squire Lakes in Jennings County.

Police captured them at gunpoint.

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