Storey County Escapee May Have Left County  Jail Escapee Jeremy
Morales  Jail Escapee Jeremy Morales  VIRGINIA CITY, NV -
Authorities are still searching the mountainsides of the
Comstock looking for a 38-year-old man who escaped early Monday
morning from the Storey County jail. But Sheriff Gerald Antinoro
says he thinks it's likely the man has left the county.  Jeremy
Morales had already pleaded guilty to a charge of sexual assault
on a minor. As part of his plea bargain, he was to have been
sentenced later in the morning in Storey County District Court.
At 38 years of age, he was facing spending the next 25 years
behind bars.  At about 1:30AM Monday, the deputy on duty was
making a routine cell check. Apparently the door to his cell was
not locked and Morales was actually hiding in the shadows of an
adjacent locked day room.  As the female deputy checked Morales'
cell, he slipped out of the day room, locking her behind him.
Once out of the cell area, he was able to work his way past
additional security, f