Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Poultnry Man Tries Jail Break

Vermont State Police say a Poultney man who tried to escape the Rutland Jail this month said he did it became he feared for his life.


Court documents indicate that 23 year old Herman Hier made his July 4 escape attempt because of daily threats from QUOTE "three guys with tattoos, weighing approximately 240 pounds." The Rutland Herald says that while Hier succeeded in scaling a 12-foot-high, interior chain-link fence in the jail's recreation yard, he was stopped as he tried to climb an exterior gate that led to a roadway. Hier pleaded innocent Tuesday when arraigned in Rutland District Court on a felony charge of trying to escape from a correctional facility. Bail was set at 35 thousand dollars but Hier couldn't come up with it because he's being held without bail on a prior charge.