A South Carolina inmate broke out of a maximum-security prison using wire cutters apparently flown in by drone, officials said Friday, describing a new and devilishly hard-to-stop means of escape. "We believe a drone was used to fly in the tools that allowed him to escape," South Carolina Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said. Prison officials are investigating how his 8 p.m. disappearance Tuesday went unnoticed until 2 p.m. the next day. In his first escape, from a different South Carolina prison in 2005, he and another inmate hid in a garbage truck that was leaving the maximum-security institution. ———This story has been corrected to say Causey was loose for 18 hours before prison officials noticed.

Source: ABC News July 07, 2017 11:03 UTC