Knoxville News-Sentinel
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — Two of the three inmates who escaped Thursday night from a Sevier County minimum- security jail were back in custody Sunday morning after being found at a Pigeon Forge motel. Sheriff Ron Seals said Roy Ray Herron, 24, and Tommy Ray Kitts, 36, were taken into custody at 11:30 a.m. at the River Lodge South Motel. Herron and Kitts were each charged with escape.
The third escapee, Calvin Junior McMahan, 45, is still on the run, Seals said.
The inmates escaped when they overpowered a guard and scaled a fence.
The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Team, accompanied by detectives and members of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Smoky Mountain Fugitive Task Force, went to the motel after “we talked to a lot of folks and we finally got decent information that led us to that location,” Detective Stephanie Hodges said.
Hodges said neither Herron nor Kitts came to the door when officers knocked, but when lawmen forced their way in, the two men were compliant.
“It was an easy arrest; they didn’t give us any problem,” she said.
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