Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: An armed fugitive whose mother and friends broke him out of jail by ramming a powerful truck through the fences of a Florida prison was recaptured Sunday after killing a civilian in a car crash, police said. Jay Junior Sigler, 31, and one of the men who helped him escape were arrested in Pompano Beach, Florida, after smashing their car into another vehicle while trying to elude police, killing the driver. ``They realized the police were behind them...they accelerated up an alleyway at a great rate of speed,'' Special Agent Lew Wilson of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told Reuters in a telephone interview. Emerging from the alleyway, ``they struck a civilian vehicle, fatally injuring the driver...It is a very unfortunate situation.'' Both Sigler and Christopher Michelson, whom police had described as armed and extremely dangerous, were now in custody, Wilson said. One of the men had received treatment at a local hospital for injuries received in the crash, Wilson said, but no more details were immediately available. The identity of the dead driver was being withheld pending notification of relatives, he added. Sigler escaped from the three-year-old, high-tech Everglades Correctional Institution west of Miami Saturday. His mother, 58-year-old Sandra Sigler, and several sidekicks broke him out by crashing a stolen tractor-trailer rig - the powerful front end of an articulated lorry or juggernaut - through the fences of the prison and opening fire on prison guards. Police initially said they suspected Sigler's mother had masterminded the jailbreak. Wilson said though that the jailbreak was planned by her son and Michelson, a former inmate at the prison. ``She joined in... She was in the getaway car,'' he said. Police officers described the jailbreak as one of the most spectacular they had ever seen. Sigler, an armed robber who was serving a 20-year jail sentence, ``escaped during a breakout in which an accomplice drove a stolen tractor-trailer through four prison fences and fired several shots from a shotgun at corrections officers.'' Two prison officers were slightly injured when they took cover while a third officer returned the shotgun fire. One of the jailbreakers, named as John Beaston, ``drove the stolen tractor-trailer rig down an access road near the prison and drove through a barricade, steel gate and two 12-foot perimeter fences secured with razor wire.'' Sigler, Beaston and Michelson, who was also in the truck, then ran to a getaway car -- where Sigler's mother was waiting -- and fled the scene, pursued by police. Officers arrested Sandra Sigler, Beaston and Kelly Mitchell, another member of the jailbreak team, at a gas station several blocks from the prison as they attempted to switch cars. But they lost Sigler and Michelson, who managed to flee in another vehicle. Wilson said police spotted them in the same car Sunday morning in Pompano Beach, about 25 miles north of Miami. No details were immediately available on the charges Sigler and Michelson would face. Beaston was charged with attempted murder, Sandra Sigler with theft and conspiracy to aid an escapee, and Mitchell with conspiracy to aid an escapee. -- Kathy E "I can only please one person a day, today is NOT your day, and tomorrow isn't looking too good for you either" http://members.delphi.com/kathylaw/ Law & Issues Mailing List http://pw1.netcom.com/~kathye/rodeo.html - Cowboy Histories http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2990/law.htm Crime photo's Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
