Fourth jail escapee recaptured

GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) _ The last of four inmates who escaped from the Logan County Jail earlier this week has been recaptured. <br><br>Phillip Dean Hancock, 38, was taken into custody about 11 p.m. Friday

Sunday, April 7th 2002, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) _ The last of four inmates who escaped from the Logan County Jail earlier this week has been recaptured.

Phillip Dean Hancock, 38, was taken into custody about 11 p.m. Friday after authorities received a tip that he would try to pick up a vehicle in the parking lot of an Edmond movie theater, officials said.

``We had found out that someone was supposed to drop off a truck for him at Edmond in the parking lot ... so we just set up on it,'' said Logan County Sheriff Randy Richardson.

When Hancock arrived to pick up the truck, officers from Logan and Payne counties, Guthrie, Stillwater and Midwest City were waiting.

Hancock was arrested without incident, Richardson said.

Hancock and fellow Guthrie resident Timothy Glenn Garner, along with Enid residents Tanner Michael James and Dedrick Max Bloss fled the jail Wednesday by smashing through a ceiling and an inner wall and going through the air conditioning duct of the facility, which is more than 100 years old.

Officers arrested Garner, 20, Thursday night. James and Bloss surrendered the night before at an Enid apartment complex.

Garner was being held on charges arising from a domestic dispute and an assault and battery on a police officer. Hancock faced drug charges.

James, 22, was serving time on multiple felony counts from Garfield County, while Bloss, 22, had been jailed on an assault charge.

The four have been charged with escape from custody in Logan County District Court.

Sheriff Randy Richardson said officials are trying to address problems at the jail.