TROUP COUNTY, Ga. – Two inmates are on the run after escaping from the Troup County Jail via a drain pipe.
Around 8 a.m. Thursday, deputies discovered that 28-year-old Thomas Christopher Cuddington and 28-year-old Eric Calvin Bell had escaped from the jail. Cuddington is in jail on a felony drug charge and Bell is in for a drug charge and for rioting in a penal institution.
Surveillance video showed the two inmates climbing down from a drain pipe on the front of the Sheriff’s Office around 11 p.m. Wednesday. They were last seen running up Sam Walker Drive toward Hamilton Road.
Cuddington is described as a 5’8 white man with the last known address in the 1500 block of Phillips Road in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Bell is described as a 5’9 black man with the last known address in the 4000 block of Old West Point Road in LaGrange, Georgia.
There is an active search for the two inmates. There is a $1,000 reward offered for information that leads to the arrest of the two inmates for a total of $2,000.
If you come in contact with either man, you are asked to call 911, the Sheriff’s Office at 706-883-1616, or Crime Stoppers at 706-812-1000.
