Riddle gets 13 years for three charges

A man who robbed a pizza deliveryman, became one of the first to escape the new Warren County Jail, and most recently attacked one of his fellow inmates, will serve 13 years in prison after he accepted a package deal last week.

The defendant, Susej Riddle, 19, entered guilty pleas before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to charges of aggravated robbery, felony escape and aggravated assault. He was given a grand total of 13 years in prison as the sentences were all run consecutively, or one after another.

The largest chunk of his sentence, an eight-year term, came for his robbery of a pizza deliveryman early this year. Investigators say Riddle called in a delivery from Pizza Hut, and instructed the deliveryman to bring the pizza to an apartment at a local complex.

However, when the deliveryman arrived, Riddle emerged from an unoccupied apartment, put a gun to his face, and forced him into the empty apartment where he robbed the victim. He was caught days later with evidence still in his possession, including a BB gun lawmen believe he used to commit the crime.

It was while awaiting his day in court on the robbery charge that Riddle, along with fellow inmate, Michael Wright Jr., escaped Warren County Jail this summer by kicking out their cell window and bars and climbing down to the exercise yard below using bed sheets.

While escaping custody that night, both Riddle and Wright were captured the next day hiding in separate houses. Riddle was given two years for his felony escape.

Adding the final three years to his sentence was his attack on fellow inmate David Wayne Dugas earlier this month. Lawmen say Riddle punched Dugas while the victim was on the phone in the common area of their cell block, breaking his nose and giving him a black eye.

Riddle will serve his sentence in the state penitentiary thus relieving the local jail of securing the former escapee. His fellow escapee, Wright, is still awaiting trial.