Sheriff: 2 briefly escape Oklahoma jail to visit girlfriends, smoke marijuana

Monday, October 16, 2017
HUGO, Okla. (WPVI) -- An Oklahoma sheriff says two inmates briefly escaped to visit their girlfriends and smoke marijuana and then walked back to the jail.

WABC-TV reports, Choctaw County Sheriff Terry Park tells The Oklahoman that inmates Harley Davidson and Rakeem Lennox waited for jail staff to leave the area near their room about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. He says the men then entered the booking room to steal a laundry room door key and fled.
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The sheriff says they returned to the county jail on foot after midnight and could face additional charges.

He says both men were in jail for drug possession.
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