Two inmates have escaped the White County Jail in Carmi this morning, and folks are being asked to keep on the lookout for them.
Donald Currier, 26, and Robert Mead, 32, were missing after a headcount at breakfast, according to officials there at the jail.
Donald Currier
Robert Mead
Video surveillance outside the facility shows the two leaving the jail around 1:30 a.m. Upon inspection it was discovered that there was a hole in the ceiling and roof of the jail; this is the presumptive route the two took, but it’s being investigated further.
Currier and Mead were bot dressed in shorts and dark colored T-shirts.
Mead was being held on various drug related charges.
Currier was being held on an Aggravated Battery charge, this stemming from an incident in early September at the Grayville Days festival Currier has been a problem child in recent months, having been involved in an incident in Wayne County over the summer but not receiving charges from it.
Sheriff’s authorities in neighboring or nearby counties of Williamson, Edwards, and Wayne, as well as the Illinois State Police, whose District 19 offices are headquartered just outside of Carmi, have been notified.
The Carmi Police Department had a K9 officer searching around the jail area earlier this morning.
Anyone with information is asked to call the White County Sheriff’s Office at 618-382-5321.