MASON COUNTY, Ky. (WKRC) – The FBI announced a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive that escaped from a Greater Cincinnati jail and possibly fled to Northern Kentucky.
The agency requested public assistance on Monday for the capture of 48-year-old Jerry Lee Cooper, who escaped from the Brown County Detention Center in Georgetown, Ohio on September 15. Cooper escaped alongside 51-year-old Roy Gene Butler, but he was apprehended shortly after
According to the FBI, Cooper escaped “while he awaited trial for his alleged role in a murder-for-hire.” On the day of the escape, Cooper and Butler “broke through a window in the Detention Center, went to the Ohio River, stole a boat, and travelled to Dover, Kentucky.”…