Prisoners use toothbrushes to escape and make IHOP run

On Monday night, two inmates of the Newport News Jail Annex in Virginia made an improbable and daring escape from their cells. John M. Garza, 37, and Arley V. Nemo, 43, succeeded in breaching what authorities discovered was a “construction design weakness” in the wall, using nothing but heightened resourcefulness and a few crude tools fashioned from a toothbrush and a metal object. Having climbed the wall, Garza and Nemo fled the compound and were …

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