Florida Escape Probers Testing Forgeries for DNA

Scientists are DNA testing the forged documents that allowed two convicted murderers to escape from a Florida prison as the two recaptured men are being questioned about possible accomplices.

Laboratory scientists in Pensacola, Fla., are testing the forged documents for DNA today, using a method called Touch DNA, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Touch DNA is a method that analyzes skin cells possibly left on evidence.

FLDE Commissioner Gerald Bailey has indicated that more arrests would be made in connection with the jailbreak.

Agents are also back at Bay County Jail questioning Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker.

Jenkins and Walker were apprehended without incident at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in Panama City Saturday evening, officials said.

Law enforcement officials believe the two men may have paid someone thousands of dollars to create the forged release paper they used to con officials.

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Shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday, about 20 members of the task force surrounded the hotel and told Jenkins and Walker to come out. About a minute later, both men came out with their hands in the air and were taken into custody without incident.

When the two convicted killers emerged from room 227, where they had been holed up, they told officials "they were relieved that it was over," U.S. Marshals Service Chief Inspector Frank Chiumento said.

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Florida Escape Probers Testing Forgeries for DNA