Hamilton County, TN – Saturday morning at approximately 5:30 am, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Corrections Services personnel found that (4) inmates in a minimum security housing unit at the Silverdale Detention Center were missing during headcount. The facility was immediately placed on lockdown and an investigation revealed the (4) inmates breached an exterior door and scaled the perimeter barbed wire fence.

Within the first few hours of this investigation, (2) of the (4) inmates were captured by HCSO personnel at a local motel off McCutcheon Road. The two inmates captured were Johnny Bryant and William Atkins.

The two remaining inmates, Justin Lynn Conner and Trevor Lynn Hall were later found Saturday night and taken into custody.

Justin Lynn Conner was taken into custody in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee, by Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office personnel.
Trevor Lynn Hall was taken into custody in Jackson County, Tennessee.

Within 24 hours of the reported escape, all four inmates were taken back into custody. The circumstances of the escape remains an ongoing criminal investigation.