The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia

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November 5, 2009

Mount Olive work camp escapees remain at-large

The state corrections commissioner says two escaped prison inmates remain at-large, and authorities working to find them are still concentrating their efforts in Wyoming County.

William Okey Cline, 25, and Kenneth Ray Hager, 30, were discovered missing Oct. 26 during a head count. They were inmates at the minimum-security Slayton Work Camp at Mount Olive Correctional Complex.

Commissioner Jim Rubenstein said intelligence received by the authorities leads them to believe the men are in Wyoming County. Cline was sentenced for daytime burglary in Wyoming County, and Hager was serving time for burglary, grand larceny and breaking and entering in Boone County.

Cline is described as a 6-foot-1, 195-pound white man with brown hair and eyes. He has a Tazmanian devil tattoo on his left forearm and a “Wyoming County Outlaw” tattoo on his torso.

Hager is a 6-foot-1, 170-pound white man with brown hair and eyes. He has numerous skull tattoos on his forearms, tattoos of a brick wall on his legs and left-hand fingers and a mermaid tattoo on his back.

Anyone with information about the inmates’ whereabouts is urged to call their local State Police detachment or Mount Olive at 304-442-7213.

— Amelia A. Pridemore

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