The State - News from June 5, 1987

A prisoner took off his clothes and sprinted to freedom in orange shorts that helped him blend in with joggers near the county jail in Santa Rosa, sheriff’s deputies said. Joseph L. Everest, 22, hopped a fence, crossed a freeway and disappeared, leaving his jail-issue shirt and pants behind. Everest was to be tried next week in the March armed robbery of a pizza parlor. He was mopping the floor in the laundry area of the Sonoma County Jail when he escaped through the adjacent gate where police and deputies bring in new prisoners. According to jail Cmdr. Phil Groat, Everest said, “I’ve been released” and ran.