Lorenzo Pollard, 31, escaped from a St. Louis corrections facility by using nun-chucks he made out of his bed sheets and parts from a chair in his cell to fend off more than a dozen guards.
Pollard, who was incarcerated on theft, trespassing and resisting arrest charges, made his brazen jailbreak Friday night as he was being led to the showers by several guards, Police Capt. Sam Dotson told the newspaper.
In a fight sequence that would have made Bruce Lee proud, Pollard kept the guards at bay by swinging the nun-chucks.
He then leaped to a railing and used the weapon to shatter glass blocks in the wall, crawled to the grounds below and somehow managed to scale two barbed-wire fences to freedom.
The ninja-like escape is just the latest embarrassment to St. Louis’ beleaguered municipal jail system. Its commissioner, Gene Stubblefield, was placed on forced leave before Pollard’s flight to freedom for several previous jailbreaks and allegations he mismanaged bill payments, according to the Post-Dispatch.
“The current system in the jails is unacceptable,” Mayor Francis Slay wrote on his blog after the jailbreak. “Keeping the prisoners inside the jails is the barest minimum requirement, and it has not been met.”
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