When it came time for lights out at Lieber Correctional Institution on the evening of July 4, officers at the maximum-security South Carolina prison thought they had all 1,300 inmates accounted for.
However, convicted kidnapper Jimmy Causey was not in his bunk and a homemade dummy was stuffed under the covers in his place. By the time prison officials realized Causey was missing, he had already been gone for nearly one full day.
Authorities gave new details of his plot following his capture early on Friday after more than two days on the run.
Aided by wire cutters that authorities believe were flown in by a drone, Causey made it out of his cell, exited the dorm and cut through a series of metal fences.
Authorities have not said if he had a getaway car waiting for him.
However, Causey got away, and fast. By the time officials confirmed he was gone, Causey had an 18-hour head start on law enforcement. He made it 1,900 km to Austin, Texas, where he was captured.
When authorities nabbed Causey early on Friday morning as he slept in a motel, he had a pistol, a shotgun, four cellphones and US$47,000 in cash.
Authorities are in the process of extraditing Causey to South Carolina, where he is to be sent to one of the prison system’s most secure facilities.
Officials are still probing exactly what happened leading up to and following the escape.
South Carolina Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling would not say if staff errors contributed to Causey’s escape, but on Friday he told reporters that one officer would have been on duty in the area near Causey’s cell around when he got out.
Later on Friday, corrections officials told reporters that one Lieber employee had been fired in connection with Causey’s escape.
It was Causey’s second prison escape in 12 years. In 2005, Causey also used a dummy — this one made from toilet paper — to trick officers into thinking he was asleep in his bunk at a different South Carolina prison. He and another inmate hid in a garbage truck that was leaving the maximum-security institution. They were arrested three days later after a woman delivering pizza to a motel called police.
The use of drones has increased as a way to deliver contraband such as drugs and cellphones to prisons across the US, including two recent cases in South Carolina.
In May, two men were arrested for trying to fly knives, marijuana and phones into a medium-security state prison. Another man is serving a 15-year sentence after officials found a crashed drone outside a maximum-security institution in 2014.
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