NASHVILLE, March 21 (UPI) -- A plot to break Tennessee's only female death row inmate out of jail has been foiled, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.
Justin Heflin, 23, of Chattanooga, a former correctional officer at Nashville's Tennessee Prison for Women, was charged Tuesday with bribery, official misconduct, conspiracy to commit escape and facilitation to commit escape. He remained in the Davidson County Jail.
His alleged accomplice, Donald Kohut, 34, of Flemington, N.J., was arrested at his home by New Jersey State Police Monday, and awaits extradition in the Hunterdon County Department of Corrections, after indictment on bribery and conspiracy charges, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported Wednesday.
An investigation found evidence of their alleged involvement in the planned escape of Christa Gail Pike, 36, who was sentenced to death in 1996 for a 1995 murder in Knoxville, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Tennessee Department of Corrections officials said.
