Overview
- Kentucky State Police say several inmates overpowered parts of the Whitley County Detention Center on Oct. 4, entered the control room and assaulted deputy jailers with a mop bucket, a pencil and OC spray.
- The assault left multiple deputy jailers injured; they were treated at local hospitals and later released.
- Forty-two-year-old Charles Blake Randle escaped during the incident and was located and taken into custody the next day in London, Kentucky.
- Randle now faces new counts including first‑degree escape, three counts of first‑degree assault of a police officer and three counts of first‑degree attempted murder, while Roy Cox and James Fields face similar charges and Anthony Tucker faces complicity and escape counts.
- Kentucky State Police led the response with local departments, Whitley County EMS and the U.S. Marshals Service and say the case remains under active investigation.