Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 5, 1994 TAG: 9410050113
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WELCH, W.VA. LENGTH: Medium
State police got a tip that Roger Lee Jones, 32, was in an apartment building in Welch. He was eating a sandwich and drinking a beer when officers went into an apartment about 3:30 p.m., Sheriff Don Hicks said. Jones was arrested without incident, Hicks said.
Jones escaped Sept. 24 from McDowell County Correctional Facility, where he was being held without bond on six charges of murder, kidnapping and sexual assault.
He was charged with felony jail escape and was being held Monday in the correctional facility on $50,000 bond for that charge.
Jones was scheduled to go to trial Tuesday on charges he shot Douglas Bailey, 30, of Coalwood last November at the Berwind home of Jones' sister-in-law. Jones then held his estranged wife, sister-in-law and his two stepdaughters hostage, police said.
Authorities said the sister-in-law and stepdaughters escaped through a back door, then Jones locked himself in the bathroom with his wife and allegedly raped her before surrendering.
Last week, Jones was being escorted to a segregation cell when he bolted from officers and ran out a kitchen door that was unlocked because food was being delivered.
Jones then ran into the town of Welch, where he eluded police.
Last Tuesday, police said Jones flagged down a Mercer County woman, pulled a knife and made her drive him to Virginia.
The woman eventually escaped.
He has not been charged with that crime.
Police said they found the car last Wednesday in Tazewell, Va., 15 miles south of Welch and about 80 miles west of Roanoke, where Jones' wife had been living before Bailey's death.
She previously had filed two domestic-violence petitions against Jones, but no action had been taken, officials said.
by CNB