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Inmate gives Benewah jail the slip...again

| September 13, 2011 8:05 AM

From the Idaho Department of Correction:

The Benewah County Sheriff's Office reports a Department of Correction inmate escaped Tuesday from the county jail overnight.

He is the same inmate who escaped in July and was captured five days later in Kootenai County.

Jesse John Wilkenson aka Brebner escaped from the jail just after midnight. The county has launched an investigation.

Escape details won't be released until more of the basic information is completed according to Undersheriff Larry Sotin.

Wilkenson was serving a sentence for a burglary conviction, but was in the jail awaiting charges associated with the July escape.

He escaped July 15 after a judge sentenced him to a 365-day prison treatment program. He was captured five days later in Kootenai County.

A warrant has been issued and local law enforcement alerted. The 20-year-old Wilkenson is white, 5-feet 8-inches tall and 146 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. If you see Wilkenson please call 911.

Wilkenson now faces an additional five-year prison sentence if

convicted of the latest escape.


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