A WALKER COUNTY INMATE WHO ESCAPED WEDNESDAY MORNING HAS TURNED HIMSELF IN… AND SO HAS HIS WIFE.  NOW BOTH ARE LODGED IN THE WALKER COUNTY JAIL.     
    29 YEAR OLD DAVID EUGENE HART ESCAPED FROM THE SCHOOL SYSTEM’S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER NEAR CHICKAMAUGA… WHERE HE WAS WORKING ON A RENOVATION PROJECT AT THE FORMER POND SPRINGS SCHOOL BUILDING.
   

SHERIFF STEVE WILSON SAID HART LEFT HIS WORK DETAIL AROUND 10:50 AM… AND WAS PICKED UP BY HIS WIFE NEAR THE TECHNOLOGY CENTER.  THEY LEFT IN A SILVER 2007 MERCEDES.   HART WAS SERVING 20 YEARS ON A DRUG CONVICTION.  
   

DAVID HART IS NOW ALSO CHARGED WITH FELONY ESCAPE… AND HIS WIFE, JESSICA NICOLE HART, IS CHARGED WITH FELONY AIDING ESCAPE.
   

 ANOTHER WOMAN WAS PICKED UP WEDNESDAY, FOR ALLEGEDLY HELPING HART GET AWAY.  41 YEAR OLD TAMARA ELSTER OF RINGGOLD IS CHARGED WITH FELONY AIDING ESCAPE.  SHE WAS ARRESTED AT HER WORK IN CHATTANOOGA ON A WARRANT FROM THE WALKER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE.
   

THEY ALLEGE THAT SHE PROVIDED THE "GET AWAY CAR" TO INMATE DAVID HART’S WIFE.   THEY ALSO CONTEND THAT SHE ACCOMPANIED MRS. HART TO THE SITE WHERE THE PRISONER ESCAPED.  IF CONVICTED, ELSTER COULD BE SENTENCED TO ONE-TO-FIVE YEARS IN JAIL.