HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. (AP) – A manhunt was underway Saturday in central Georgia for five men who escaped a county jail.
Pulaski County Sheriff Danny Brannen said federal marshals, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia State Patrol and multiple sheriff’s offices in the area are helping in the search.
Brannen said at 11 p.m. Friday, the inmates were supposed to be in lockdown. One of two jailers working was in a cell talking to an inmate when another inmate attacked the guard. The sheriff said the inmates told the jailer they were going to kill her, then took her car keys and attacked the other jailer on duty.
The jailers were not hurt in the attack.
“I’m thinking they’re not in Hawkinsville no more,” Brannen said.