Inmate escapes through crawl space inside jail

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Thursday, February 19, 2015
VIDEO: Inmate escapes through crawl space
An inmate from Wallace, Idaho is on the loose Thursday morning.

An inmate from Wallace, Idaho is on the loose.

Surveillance video shows the man bursting through a closet door, and past a cleaning lady, as he made his escape.

Police say the 48-year-old inmate had pulled open a ceiling panel, worked his way through a crawl space and ended up coming out of a cleaning closet in the jail's public area.

The inmate had been in jail since he stole from a Walmart in August.

The sheriff puts part of the blame for his escape on a lack of funding and staffing.

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