Four inmates who are incarcerated in Lexington, Mississippi face additional jail time after it was discovered that they had broken out of the correctional facility housing them, only to sneak back in after burglarizing a local bargain store.
Travis Baker, Maurice Robertson, Levontaye Ellington and Jacquiez Williams, managed to get to a fence separating them from freedom, and rather than escape and go into hiding after hopping over it, they hit up a local Dollar General less than one mile away. While in the store they reportedly swiped cigarettes, lighters, and other nicknacks that they figured they could sell to others at Humphreys County Correctional Facility. And the entire episode was caught on surveillance; making it easy for investigators to pin them for the crime.
“You’re already in jail, but you want to break out and break back in? That is just something. I heard it all,” Lexington Police Chief Robert Kirklin told Mississippi News Now about the unreal details of the report. After pulling off the theft the men about-faced and headed back to HCCF. Upon arriving they hopped the fence to get back in, in much the manner they used to get out. They have since had the goods revoked and been charged with commercial burglary.
