B3 Escaped Kentucky inmates face Georgia murder charges By MIKE CHAMBERS Associated Press Two inmates who escaped from a minimum-security prison in Lexington in June were being held in a Georgia jail yesterday on murder charges. James Neal Halley, 39, and Jack Napier, 48, were arrested by the Georgia State Patrol on Interstate 95 Friday after an off-duty deputy sheriff near Savannah, said he saw two men drag a body from a van and leave it in the woods. The victim is identified as Tommy Allen Chittum, 41, of Stafford, Chatham County Police Det. Willie Polite said yesterday. Chittum father told police the man picked up the two men at a Baltimore rest stop while they were hitchhiking, Polite said.
Halley and Napier are being held without bond in the Chatham County Jail, each charged with one count of murder, Polite said. Additional charges are pending, he said. An autopsy on Chittum also is pending, Polite said. Halley and Napier had been wanted by Kentucky authorities since they walked away from the Blackburn Correctional Complex in Lexington on June 29. Halley was serving a 10-year sentence on a 1998 conviction in Boyd County for third-degree assault and being a persistent felon, said Carol Czirr, spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Corrections.
Napier was serving a 10-year sentence on an April 1999 conviction in Fayette County for possession of a firearm by a felon, tampering with physical evidence and being a persistent felon, Czirr said. Halley and Napier had arrived at the minimum security prison in February and April respectively, Czirr said. Boyd County Commonwealth's Attorney J. Stewart Schneider expressed anger that Halley was being housed in a minimum security prison at the time of his escape. Halley had threatened his life two weeks after he escaped, Schneider said.
"He is a dangerous man. Why this man was at Blackburn, I do not understand," he said. The alleged threat to his life came just after Commonwealth's Attorney Fred Capps was shot to death in his Burkesville home on June 5 by a man who was about to stand trial on sex ual abuse charges. "I took that very seriously. In light of the murder of Fred Capps last month, there's no other way to take it," Schneider said.
Schneider said he plans to write the Justice Cabinet to ask for a review in Kentucky's rules governing the placement of prisons. "I feel very strongly that the rules that govern placement need review," Schneider said. Czirr said the prisoners undergo a classification process before being assigned to a minimum security prison. She also noted the alleged death threat came after Halley had escaped. Polite said an off-duty Effingham County police officer watched two men dump a body in a wooded area near Parker's Convenience Store on Ga.
240 and one of the men then asked the officer, dressed in civilian clothes, for directions to 1-95. The officer alerted authorities and followed the men until they were stopped on 1-97 near Savannah, Polite said. Napier surrendered peacefully but Halley resisted arrest, Polite said. Czirr said the FBI is also investigating the incident. THE COURIER-JOURNAL METRO KENTUCKY SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2000 (GTE)- Man arrested in acid attack on girlfriend More Ring.
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