Two former jail inmates were back behind bars again on Sunday after allegedly robbing two banks last month for bail money to get a third inmate out of jail. The scheme was briefly successful, netting the pair $10,000 - enough to get their buddy released.

Sadly for the trio, released man, Kenyon Grady Cox, broke the terms of his bail by removing his monitoring device, resulting in a warrant being issued for his arrest. Fugitive officers spotted Cox, together with bank robbers Thomas Leon Jochum Junior and Donald Mark Scott leaving a pawn shop. Leon and Scott were arrested but Cox escaped, only to be arrested a short while later.

Either Jochum or Scott confessed to police they had robbed a bank in Saginaw on Dec. 20 and another in Blue Mound on Dec. 22. and a pellet gun found at the scene of the pawn shop arrest was not unlike the one that was used in the robberies.

As court records show that all three of these men were facing sex charges, I don't think that the bank robberies had anything whatsoever to do with friendship. More likely, the two have worked out that robbers have a much easier time in jail than pedophiles. Quite right too.

KWTX