There's another escaped prisoner to report on tonight. He is Edgar Roberts and according to a release from the Kolbe Foundation, he escaped last night at 7:00 from cell #43 in the Medium Security Section. The release says he escaped during a thunderstorm by breaking the lock off his cell and exiting the building un-detected. He is originally form Independence Village and is 5 foot 9 inches tall. He was serving time for Escape, Assaulting a Police Officer, Resisting arrest, and Aggravated Assault. The prison says he is not considered armed and dangerous and anyone seeing him or known his whereabouts is asked to call the central prison at 225-6229 or 225-6191.
Roberts joins two other inmates who are still at large, Dennis Quilter who ran to the United States the last time he escaped, and 22-year-old Jose Melgar who has been identified as the leader of the escape group.
The man who publicly identified Melgar as the leader of the group is former prison warden Emmanuel Barrow who in a memorable interview two weeks ago told us just how that escape happened on the night of Sunday April 11th.
"Well now when I was looking to turn back now, as I turn now with my heart going this way, my eye ketch the wricket, now this is not the main wricket, this is the wricket to cell 4 which was housing Cocom and Melgar. I see this thing with the chain and the padlock the open. I will tell you Mr. Jules, with no disrespect, if my heart was bad I would have had a heart attack because I got so frightened because you know you expect something to close and it is being opened so when I turned this way I saw Melgar the come out with a big thing like big bora and he come down into my chest. I told him please nuh kill me, please nuh kill me. He said the only way I will kill you is if you make noise and you don't do what we say. So they told me to get down and this is right under the camera so I didn't mind because I said the surveillance camera is there and they will see what the happen."
"So I got down and then Cocom come, he grabbed me by the foot and he dragged me. I don't know if you've ever seen the movie where they were looking to kill a man in the bathtub where they hold him down. So I said dah dead I will dead now. So I said please don't kill me, I have a daughter to live for, please don't kill me. So they dragged me into the cell."
"I cried like a woman for my life. I believe man fi act like man and I believe I am the most manliest man until that day because I cried like a woman for my life and I think I lost some testerone after that day. I begged for my life. I begged for my life. It is because I begged the mastermind I didn't die, Melgar because he was the one they were asking who to bust out next and he is the one I begged for life and he gave me the chance to live."
