Authorities searching for escaped county jail inmate, according to alert
An alert despatched to people in the Warren Road area of Lansing claims an inmate has escaped from the Tompkins County Jail and regulation enforcement is browsing the place. Inhabitants in the space have described seeing sheriff’s deputies and police officers wanting for footprints in snow in the region.
The Swift911 inform sent Monday evening describes the escaped inmate as a 37-12 months-aged white male with tan pants, a white shirt, and grey sweatshirt.
Update: A statement from Sheriff Derek Osborne at 9:45pm on Monday suggests the escaped inmate is Jeffrey E. Cornell, who’s “serving a sentence for Driving Whilst Intoxicated, with extra charges pending, and was working as a trustee at the jail.”
Image of Jeffrey Cornell courtesy Tompkins County Sheriff’s Business office.
In accordance to Osborne, Cornell escaped at about 6:46pm all through a operate detail. The inmate experienced been “escorted outside the jail by a corrections officer to get the trash to the dumpster when he ran off on foot in the route of Warren Street.”
Authorities at very first believed the escaped inmate is in the space of 700 Warren Street, the Northwoods Apartments elaborate, which is south of the jail and near the Ithaca Tompkins Worldwide Airport and the Cornell Small business & Technology Park, and issued a Swift911 inform for that location. Osborne’s assertion a few several hours later claims the inform has been lifted. “The last witness sighting of Cornell was in the space of Queen Street,” which is in the Slide Creek place of the Metropolis of Ithaca.
Update: A followup message from Sheriff Osborne at 10:39pm says investigators learned that “the suspect had entered a laundry mat [sic] and altered into a long sleeve red shirt.” Cornell was final noticed “running south on the railroad tracks that run parallel to NYS Route 13” south of Stewart Park in the City of Ithaca.
The Sheriff’s Business assertion states the Ithaca Police Section, Cayuga Heights Law enforcement, and New York Condition Law enforcement are helping with the search.
Update: At 11:31pm, Sheriff Osborne explained regulation enforcement experienced “called off the ground-search for Cornell because of to the exhaustion of all look for options. Witness accounts and monitoring initiatives led searchers into the City of Ithaca exactly where all capacity to even more observe Cornell was dropped. The investigation into his whereabouts will go on.”
A warrant has been issued on the cost of Escape in the Second Diploma, a class E felony, and “an investigation into the incident will be executed in conjunction with the NYS Fee of Correction,” Sheriff Osborne claims.
Sheriff Osborne and the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Business are liable for overseeing the Tompkins County Jail.
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