LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was a daring and elaborate escape: cutting through metal, crawling through plumbing tunnels, climbing a roof, rappelling four stories to freedom using ropes made from bed sheets.

An Italian mob boss has escaped from his maximum-security cell by scrambling down a makeshift bedsheet rope — and remains on the run as officials investigate the security lapse that allowed the don to ...

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in central California were searching Sunday for six inmates who used a “homemade rope” to escape from a county jail, sheriff's officials said. All six escapees should ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. – Authorities in California say six inmates, including a man charged with murder, used a “homemade rope” to escape a jail over the weekend. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office ...

Police are searching for the men, including one who is charged with murder. Police in central California are on the hunt for five of the six men they say escaped from jail late Saturday night by ...

Six inmates escaped from jail using a ‘homemade rope’ they threw over the prison wall. The six men, aged between 19 and 22, escaped from the Merced County Downtown Jail in California yesterday and are ...

The South Australian Government has fined the privately operated Adelaide Remand Centre $100,000 over the escape of prisoner Jason Burdon last month. Police said Jason Burdon escaped the maximum ...