By Jennifer Crossley Howard
Anderson Independent-Mail
ANDERSON, S.C. — A judge has denied bond to Jason Bradley Hughes, who was charged with escaping the Anderson County Detention Center.
Two warrants division officers from the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office traveled to Bell County, Kentucky Wednesday to bring Hughes back to Anderson, said sheriff spokesman Chad McBride.
Hughes, 35, broke out of the Anderson County Detention Center May 27 with Travis Eugene Foster. Hughes fled to Bell County, Ky., where Kentucky State Police found him driving a car that had been reported stolen. He appeared in court in Anderson Thursday.
Foster, 28, was arrested in Seneca May 29 and is in the Anderson detention center with a $25,000 surety bond for escaping.
The men were in a cell in the old part of the jail when they escaped. They used a metal brace from a table to dig out the mortar surrounding concrete blocks. Then they broke into a locked office and pushed out an air-conditioning unit. They jumped over the razor-wire perimeter fence and left the premises.
Foster and Hughes are in a different part of the jail this time.
Foster had been in the detention center since January on two charges of grand larceny and one charge of larceny. Hughes had been in jail since April on charges of failure to stop for blue lights and larceny.
The sentence for escaping jail carries a maximum of 15 years, said Victoria Singh, bond court clerk at the county magistrate office.
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