The fugitive inmate used bedsheets to descend from the Warren County Jail overnight. (Photo: WNEP)
A fugitive inmate broke out of prison in Warren jail, Pennsylvania
A “very dangerous” prisoner who became a fugitive inmate, used bed sheets to escape from a jail in northwest Pennsylvania was being sought by local, state, and federal authorities on Saturday, according to officials.
According to authorities, Michael Burham, 34, a fugitive inmate, escaped from a Warren jail by scaling exercise equipment and using bed linens to squeeze out a window.
Burham was charged with kidnapping, burglary, and other offenses, according to Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police. According to Warren police, he was also a suspect in a homicide investigation.
At a news conference on Saturday, Bivens stated that authorities suspected Burham was still in the Warren region and had probably changed clothes since he escaped while dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit and a blue denim coat.
Michael Burham, a fugitive inmate, is “a self-taught survivalist with military experience and could potentially be holed up in a wooded area,” Bivens said.
Burham, the fugitive inmate, is seen as being extremely dangerous, therefore the public is urged to remain watchful and report anything unusual, according to a Facebook post by the police.
According to Bivens, the U.S. Marshalls Service was offering a $7,500 reward and Crime Stoppers was offering a $2,000 reward for information that will resullt to the detention of the fugitive inmate.
A Fugitive Inmate who fled from the Warren County, Pennsylvania, has survivalist skills, according to authorities (Photo: CNN)
A prisoner who was being held on murder charges following the discovery of bodies on his Wilkes-Barre property used a rope made out of bed sheets to shimmy down from a seventh-floor cell in the Luzerne County prison two decades ago on the other side of the commonwealth.
Officials claimed that a window that had been fixed during a 1989 escape attempt had two panes that were too small and merely held in place with caulking, making them readily breakable.
Following his escape in October 2003, Hugo Selenski eluded capture for three days before surrendering. During the effort to flee, another prisoner suffered a fall injury and was later apprehended.
Selenski was acquitted of two murder accusations in a trial that took place in 2006, but he was found guilty of two killings in 2015 and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
