Kelsie Laine Marie Mast and Samantha Faye Toope are show in this handout photos. --Edmonton Police Service
UPDATE: Edmonton police said on the evening of Oct. 3 the two prisoners have been located and detained.
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Edmonton police are searching today for two escaped prisoners, who of whom has ties to Medicine Hat.
According to the Edmonton Police Service, Kelsie Laine Marie Mast, 23, and Samantha Faye Toope, 20, jumped the east fence at the Edmonton Institution for Women on Monday at about 8:40 p.m.
In June of this year, Mast was sentenced to 34 months in jail after entering guilty pleas in Medicine Hat court to charges including puppy kidnapping, drug trafficking and witness intimidation.
Mast pled guilty to three counts of trafficking meth, following an undercover police operation where multiple purchases of methamphetamine were arranged with Mast through a cellphone number. She was arrested at the end of May on these charges.
While released on bail, Mast proceeded to send text messages to one of the officers who had been part of the undercover operation and would be a witness. Mast knew that this person was an officer, and one of her multiple texts included the threat “I don’t need an army to make a pig disappear. I’ll be the last person you see.”
Edmonton police say both women are violent offenders with a history of weapons offences and should not be approached.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of these two female escapees is urged to contact the EPS at 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at http://www.tipsubmit.com/start.htm.
