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(AP) -- Update: September 12, 7:00am

BOWLING GREEN, Mo. (AP) -- The last of five men who escaped from the Pike County Jail last weekend is back in custody.

Pike County Sheriff Stephen Korte says 40-year-old William John Thomas Wilkerson of Florissant was captured overnight in St. Louis County. Korte says Wilkerson was caught after someone called police to report a suspicious person at an apartment complex. He was arrested without incident.

Wilkerson and four other men escaped from the jail in Bowling Green on Saturday after removing a shower head and getting into a service area. Jail officials didn't discover the escape until a relative of one of the inmates called Saturday evening.

Three other inmates were captured in Oklahoma early Monday and the fourth was captured later Monday in a rural area near Bowling Green.

previous update:

Four of the five inmates who escaped from a northeast Missouri jail are back in custody, two days after they removed a shower head controller to gain access to a jail service area.
  
The men escaped Saturday from the Pike County Jail in Bowling Green. Three inmates from Louisiana, Mo. -- Emanuel Chatman and brothers Jacob and Jason Darnell -- were arrested about 2 a.m. Monday while panhandling near Midwest City, Okla.
  
A fourth escapee, 49-year-old Joseph Verive of Elsberry, was caught Monday along a country road in Pike County. He told authorities he had not eaten since the escape and wanted to return to jail.
  
William John Thomas Wilkerson Jr. of Florissant remains at large. Wilkerson was held for failing to appear in court for allegedly stealing anhydrous ammonia.

Original:

Three of the five men who escaped from a northeast Missouri jail are back behind bars.
  
Five inmates of the Pike County Jail removed a stainless steel shower head controller on Saturday, which allowed them to gain access to a service area and exit the building in Bowling Green, about 70 miles northwest of St. Louis.
  
Sheriff Stephen Korte says three of the men were captured early Monday. A search for the other two continues. 

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