William Blount — the lowlife charged with bludgeoning a NYC health worker with a hammer — was also involved in a jailbreak that killed a guard, according to sources.
previously spent nearly two decades in prison — and was involved in a jailbreak that killed a guard, according to sources and reports.
Big Apple law-enforcement sources told The Post they were surprised to learn hammer suspect William Blount had a 20-year gap on his rap sheet — with his last bust dating back to 1993 — when he was nabbed in the heinous Queens assault last week. Then they learned it was because the now-57-year-old was doing hard time in South Carolina on armed-robbery and kidnapping charges, sources said.
Blount was busted in 2000 in the case after he and his brother burst into a Bojangles restaurant, kidnapping two workers while armed and forcing them to open a safe,Crime Stoppers Blount and two others later tried to escape the Richland County Jail in Columbia, SC, that same year — leaving jail guard Alvin Glenn, 59, strangled and the trio futilely leaping from the prison roof.He was recaptured and ended up pleading guilty in the kidnapping and robbery case, as well as to a conspiracy-to-escape charge for the attempted jailbreak, and was given concurrent 20- and 15-year sentences behind bars.
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