TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is announcing more arrests in the case of two murderers who used forged documents to get out of prison.
The department is holding a press conference Thursday to provide details of the arrests.
The agency has been investigating who helped Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker escape from a Franklin County prison and who later helped them hide from authorities when the mistaken release was discovered.
Jenkins and Walker were let out of the prison on Sept. 27 and Oct. 8, respectively, because of fake paperwork that reduced their life sentences to 15 years.
They were captured Oct. 19 in a Panama City Beach motel.
Check back after the 2 p.m. CST news conference for more details.
Below is an earlier version of this report:
More details and more arrests will be announced this afternoon in Tallahassee at a press conference called by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Inmates Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker were serving life sentences for murder from Orange County when they both escaped from Franklin Correctional Institution after the Department of Corrections received fraudulent release documents from the Orange County Clerk of Court.
Jenkins escaped on Sept. 27, 2013 and Walker escaped on Oct. 8, 2013. The men were nabbed together on Oct. 19 at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in Panama City Beach.
The FDLE has been conducting an investigation into who helped the men escape and whether other inmates have used fraudulent documents to escape from Florida prisons. The Department of Corrections changed the way they handle documents as a result of the case.