El Cajon
Five days after a prisoner escaped the El Cajon Detention Facility by kicking a hole through a wall, sheriff’s deputies discovered further damage to a wall in the same module of the jail.
Senior sheriff’s officers did not immediately disclose whether the wall was damaged in a second escape attempt, but said the damage did constitute a “breach in security.”
A sheriff’s spokeswoman said the damage to the interior wall of a day room in the jail was discovered at 2 a.m. Saturday, during a routine search for weapons. The inmates will be kept locked up until the wall is repaired, she said. Sheriff’s officials did not specify the nature of the damage.
Convicted burglar John J. Pugh broke out of the El Cajon jail last Monday night, becoming the first man to escape from the 6-year-old facility. Pugh apparently made a 3-by-5-foot hole in a wall on the seventh floor, and escaped by climbing down a rope made of braided bed sheets.
Pugh remained at large as of Sunday night, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
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