MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — An Oregon man has been sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges that he escaped from a Montana jail in 2009.
Donald Schwindt was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula. The 42-year-old Schwindt was also ordered to pay a $100 fine and will spend three years on probation upon release.
Schwindt and 28-year-old William Newhoff broke out of the Mineral County jail on Jan. 25, 2009, by crawling through a hole in the ceiling of their cell to a trap door in a supply closet. They were apprehended near Troy the next day.
Newhoff pleaded guilty to the escape on May 6.
The week after his escape, Schwindt was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
