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Updated: 2:35 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 | Posted: 10:52 a.m. Monday, Jan. 28, 2013

2 escaped Warren County inmates turn selves in

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By Denise G. Callahan

LEBANON —

Two men who escaped from a Warren County correctional facility turned themselves in at the sheriff’s office Thursday night.

Michael Kline, 25, of Cincinnati, and Zacariah Williamson, 25, of College Corner, appeared at the Warren County Sheriff’s Office at around 8:15 p.m. Jan. 24 and were booked into the jail. Chief Deputy Sheriff John Newsom said previously the pair might have been sighted in the Dayton area, but that tip didn’t pan out.

“They are in our jail charged with those previous charges of escape,” he said. “They just walked in and gave themselves up.”

Kline’s wife, Suza Kline, 35, of Hamilton, has also been charged with third degree felony escape for allegedly helping the men get away. She was arrested in Middletown at around 6:15 p.m. Jan. 20 after she allegedly picked up her husband and Williamson at the basketball courts on the west side of the Community Correctional Center of Butler, Clermont and Warren Counties, according to sheriff’s reports.

She was arraigned in Lebanon Municipal Court on Jan. 24 and freed from jail. Her next court hearing is Thursday.

Jail records show her husband and Williamson will be in municipal court today. They are also charged with vandalism. Prosecutor David Fornshell said the pair could be looking at three years in prison if they are found guilty.

The two men allegedly used a fire extinguisher to break a window and escape at 6:30 a.m. that day. Police reports show a recorded phone conversation between Michael and his wife at at around 5:45 a.m. revealed the escape plan.

Kline was at the center after he pleaded guilty to several counts of petty theft and breaking and entering in three separate cases in Butler County. Judge Patricia Oney sent him to the center Sept. 24 and ordered he take corrective thinking classes and get drug and alcohol abuse counseling among other services.

She also ordered him to pay $1,359 in restitution to three different Walmart stores in Butler and Hamilton counties.

Judge Keith Spaeth sent Williamson to the center last October after he pleaded guilty to grand theft. He was ordered to get mental health treatment and counseling — among other things — and he was also supposed to enter the drug court program when he left the center.

Both men now face third degree felony escape and fifth degree vandalism charges in Lebanon Municipal Court.

Talbert House runs the correctional center, but spokesperson Teri Nau said because of HIPPA laws she cannot discuss the two men. She said the center is a lock down facility but they do not have armed guards.

 
 
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