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WILKES-BARRE (PA)– Family members of two men allegedly gunned down by Hugo Selenski erupted in anger Wednesday after Selenski’s attorney handled the bones prosecutors say belonged to the slain men. The parents of Frank “Rudy” James and Adeiye “Redman” Keiler, the drug dealer suspects whom Hugo Selenski stands accused of killing, believe attorney Demetrius Fannick showed a lack of respect to their sons by dropping the bones onto the defense desk while questioning a witness about them. “How dare you throw our children’s bones,” said Keiler’s mother, Sharon Forrester, during an impromptu press conference during the lunch break. “How dare...

Selenski was sheltered by relatives By Edward Lewis and Fred Ney , Citizens' Voice Staff Writers 10/16/2003 Hugo Marcus Selenski stayed at a relative's home near the Eighth Street Bridge, Jenkins Township, for two of the three days during the massive search for the accused double murderer. Selenski, 30, escaped from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility through a flawed cell window at about 9:40 p.m. Friday. He fled north following railroad tracks along the east bank of the Susquehanna River and was undetected by several rescue boats in the water and canine units searching for him. The river search was...

State police were kept in dark about escape By Edward Lewis , Citizens' Voice Staff Writer 10/15/2003 Hearing "chatter" over their police radios, state police from the Wyoming and Shickshinny barracks responded to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility Friday night. When the first trooper arrived at about 10:25 p.m., prison guards and a small army of Wilkes-Barre police officers had been searching the grounds of the facility for nearly 45 minutes for two inmates who rappelled 60 feet from the seventh-floor maximum security level. Several police sources said the state police were not called to assist in the search...

Fischi says he won't quit as warden By Fred Ney , Citizens' Voice Staff Writer 10/14/2003 Luzerne County Prison Warden Gene Fischi says he's embarrassed and outraged by the escape of accused murderer Hugo Selenski. He also stated Monday that he, the prison board and the prison administration "accept full responsibility for it." However, he said he has no intention of resigning. The county prison board, composed of county commissioners Tom Pizano, Tom Makowski and Steve Urban as well as Dr. Thomas Kowalski and Constance Wynn, held an executive session earlier Monday for about two hours to discuss the...

<p>Hugo Selenski (search)'s surrender was negotiated through his lawyer and he is now at the state police barracks in Wyoming, Pa.</p> <p>Selenski, who escaped Friday night from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility (search) by climbing down a 60-foot rope of knotted bedsheets, was taken into custody at 8:45 p.m. after his attorney called to arrange the surrender, said Trooper Tom Kelly, spokesman for state police in Wyoming, Pa.</p>

<p>WILKES-BARRE, Pa.  — An escaped inmate charged with two murders and suspected of three others was in police custody Monday, Fox News has confirmed.</p> <p>Hugo Selenski (search)'s surrender was negotiated through his lawyer and he is now at the state police barracks in Wyoming, Pa.</p>

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - A suspect in the murders of five people whose bodies were found in his backyard escaped from jail by climbing 60 feet down a rope made of bedsheets, officials said. Hugo Selenski, who was charged Monday with murder in two of the deaths, was the subject of a massive manhunt Saturday after escaping from his seventh-floor cell at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility. Selenski's partner in the Friday night jailbreak, Scott Bolton, was injured in the escape and hospitalized. The facility, some 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia, is about a block from the courthouse in downtown Wilkes-Barre...