Chardon shooter TJ Lane scaled a 100-foot fence during recreation time to escape from the Allen Oakwood Correctional Facility in Lima, Ohio, at about 7:45 yesterday evening. He was apprehended several hours later by state highway patrol.

Lane was one of 8 prisoners at the facility under maximum security, though Allen Oakwood is considered a medium-security prison. Like most prisoners there, he hasn’t been having a great time.

Prison officials said Lane escaped with two other men, Lindsey Bruce and Clifford Operud, who were also apprehended without incident.

A state highway patrol special response team came upon Lane wtih a pitchfork at about 1:30 a.m., but authorities say he surrendered and went into their custody without comment. 

Social media went absolutely ballistic when news of Lane’s escape broke around 9 p.m. Lane’s attorney Ian Friedman chimed in:

Lane was denied on appeal back in May: “barring escape or death, he’ll be in prison for life.”  

Friedman, who is on record calling Lane’s court behavior “heinous,” is nervous that a prosecutor might give Lane his day in court again for an escape charge: 

This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2014.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

17 replies on “ICYMI: TJ Lane Escaped From Prison Last Night, Recaptured Hours Later”

  1. Just so you know, this was NOT a maximum security prison, despite him being a max security prisoner. The facility itself is minimum-to medium security. Please change your article acordingly.

  5. put the asshole to death and be done with him… he is a waste of space and doesn’t deserve to get something his victims never will. End of story.

  6. Ladies, we need to go see the biggest, BLACKEST bastards in the prison that LOST this POS and take them some cookies. It is time to “GO DO THAT VOODOO THAT YOU DO SO WELL”.

    Can I get an AMEN, my sistas?

  8. ALL JUSTICE IS OLD TESTAMENT JUSTICE. I like those little whacamacallits the Jewish Grandmas make.

    WHO HERE NEEDS A COOKIE?

    The Heartless Felons can carry us in a FUCKING PARADE. NONE OF THIS IS A CRIME.

  12. Cleveland Scene is going to it throw my ass off here soon…..I am a Judge Judy/Old Hippie Chick/Bitch Lawyer From Hell.

    I am on Pinterest and Twitter. I will TRY and stop tarding up the only decent paper this town has left…..BUT I AM PISSED!

    Anyone see the movie where the newspaper man yells “I am mad as hell and I can’t take it anymore”? 1970-ish? It is a subversive act to report the TRUTH. I ♥ Reporters and so did Superman.

  15. How long will we have to hear about this escape? Fox-8 extended their nooze by an extra half hour, just to deal with this noise and the trembling people of Chardon Me, whose little scared chilluns actually got a school day off over an event 200 miles away.

    Hey, folks, it’s over…he’s caught. You nooze hounds can go on to other stories now and you folks in Hicksville can come in off your porches and put your shotguns back in the closet.

    Will we have to bleed yet another Chardon story dry for another two weeks? Seriously? Jesus Christ. Enough.

    Chuckles the Clown

  16. He had a pitchfork? You should have just shot him and put him out of or misery, you people can shoot the shit out of the innocent at a moments notice but put down a monster?Time to follow too much protocol!

  17. @ Thomas Fisk…that would be taking it easy on that douchebag…he needs to rot in there and get pounded by big, mean, fellow inmates.

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