[08/26/02]All three of Friday’s escapees from the Warren County Jail were back there this morning after the two who remained free Sunday were captured.

Leroy “Chuckie” Guise, 20, surrendered and Johnnie E. Thomas, 17, was found trying to hide from authorities, Pace said.

The other escapee, Leon Walker Bryant, 25, was captured Saturday night while he hid under a bed in a relative’s home at Beechwood Park Apartments, 201 Berryman Road, Pace said.

Two women at the apartment complex in which Bryant was found, Tamatha D. Polk, 25, and LaShaunda Franklin, 23, were arrested and charged with obstruction of justice in attempts to aid Bryant, police records show. Franklin was arrested at the complex and Polk, at the police department.

Guise, who was charged with armed robbery and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, was captured early Sunday morning after Deputy Sheriff Ruby Sias received information from his mother that he wished to turn himself in, the sheriff said.

“We agreed on a location to meet, and he surrendered to me without incident,” Pace said.

Thomas was found about 3:15 a.m. Sunday trying to hide in a back bedroom of an abandoned house on Mundy Street, Pace said. Thomas was in jail on charges of business burglary and receiving stolen property.

Bryant was charged with sale of cocaine.

The captured were to make initial court appearances today on new charges of felony escape.

The cell block out of which the men wriggled after moving a modular toilet unit remains unused. After escaping the cell block through a 12-by-18-inch hole, the three apparently chipped away masonry work around a window to exit the older part of the jail, built in 1906.

“We’re concerned about the manner in which they were able to escape,” Pace said, adding that the cell would not be occupied until it has been checked by engineers and a brick mason to make sure that such an escape does not happen again.

There were eight people in the cell block, but five chose to remain. The escape was discovered by jail personnel performing a routine head count.