Escape charges

A man and his fiancée from the Seneca area have been charged by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office with escape as part of a scheme to try to free one of the two from jail. Joshua Dewayne Burrell is charged with conspiring with his fiancée, Brooke Danyelle McCall, in the words of the arrest affidavit, “to contact the Detention Center under the pretense of being a probation officer to have his detainer lifted and to be released from custody unlawfully.” McCall is charged with “attempting to aid or assist a prisoner (Burrell) by any means in his endeavor to escape custody.”