07 July, 2017
A SC man who has escaped not once, but twice from maximum security prisons is back in custody.
Dorchecter County deputies assisting in the search of the escaped inmate. U.S. Marshals say Causey was armed, had fake plates, a fake ID and an undisclosed amount of cash.
That first escape was carried out as part of an elaborate plan in which another inmate helped Causey make human-like dummies of clothes and toilet paper to dupe prison guards into thinking the prisoners were in their cell.
Causey was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 after he was convicted of holding Columbia attorney Jack Swerling and his family at gunpoint in their home.
He was missing from the Liebert Correctional Institution in Ridgeville on Wednesday afternoon.
Jimmy Causey is in the Williamson County Jail where records show he was arrested Friday morning by Austin Police. Richland County investigators believed at the time Swirling was targeted because Causey and his accomplice believed him to have large sums of money.
After a three-day manhunt, the inmates were found about 100 miles away from Broad River at a Ridgeland motel along Interstate 95.
