A Tucson inmate planned a prison escape worthy of a crime show episode, that is until he got caught.Jimmy Odom, 47, who is serving a life sentence for murder, tried to escape at about 8:40 this morning from the Cimarron Unit at Tucson’s Arizona State Prison Complex on South Wilmot Road.
He assaulted a prison employee, stole a delivery truck and crashed through the unit’s interior fence before being stopped at the perimeter fence, said Bill Lamoreaux, an Arizona Department of Corrections spokeman.
The Inmate pulled a homemade "shank"or knife on the food service worker , a short fight took place . There was some "blood was seen on the door of the truck" unknown who's blood it was.
Inmate tries to smash out of Tucson prison in delivery truck Even if Odom had made it past the Cimarron Unit’s perimeter fence, he still would have had to get through a double-perimeter fence that surrounds the complex and is patrolled by armed officers, Lamoreaux said.
Odom was tried in Coconino County for the 2001 murder of a Yuma man camping near Williams. Odom was convicted of first degree murder, burglary, armed robbery and kidnapping. His wife, Donna Lankford, also was convicted and is serving a life sentence at the Perryville complex in Goodyear.
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