AUBURN — The Androscoggin County sheriff says he has sent two inmates to jails elsewhere in the state after uncovering a plot to escape the county lockup.
Sheriff Guy Desjardins said Tuesday that officials received a tip just before Christmas that two inmates intended to escape through a broken window.
Desjardins tells the Sun Journal the plot remains under investigation.
The men who planned to escape allegedly include a Lewiston man facing an attempted murder charge for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend and a Portland man accused of aggravated assault for allegedly knocking down a police officer with a car.
Desjardins doubts the plan would have worked. He said glass in a window facing the adjacent YMCA had been smashed, but a steel bar likely would have prevented escape.
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