The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia

Police/Courts

November 4, 2009

Escaped inmate search focuses on Wyoming

Amelia A. Pridemore

State corrections authorities say they are focusing their efforts in Wyoming County as they continue to search for two escaped inmates.

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.

Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein said authorities are focused on Wyoming County based on intelligence gathered from that area. U.S. marshals, state troopers and various other law enforcement officers are involved.

Cline was sentenced for daytime burglary in Wyoming County. He is described as a 6-foot-1, 195-pound white male 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 6-1, 170-pound white male 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. Hager was serving time for burglary, grand larceny and breaking and entering in Boone County.

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

— E-mail: apridemore@register-herald.com

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