Five of the six pris­on­ers who were re­cap­tured af­ter al­leged­ly break­ing free from the Re­mand Sec­tion of the Gold­en Grove State Prison, last Wednes­day, have been re­turned to prison cus­tody.

Stef­fon Austin, Joshua Janet, Mikhale Mo­hammed, Brent John­son and At­i­ba Sealy were re­mand­ed in cus­tody when they ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Cheron Raphael in the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates’ Court on Mon­day charged with es­cap­ing law­ful cus­tody.

All five men plead­ed not guilty to the charge and were or­dered to reap­pear in court, next month.

Po­lice took no chances for the group’s court ap­pear­ance with armed of­fi­cers tak­ing up strate­gic lo­ca­tions around the build­ing in an­tic­i­pa­tion for their ar­rival. The men were even­tu­al­ly brought, in batch­es of two, be­tween 10 am and 11 am but made their ap­pear­ances be­fore Raphael around 1 pm.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that al­though Ker­ry Valenti­no was ar­rest­ed along­side his for­mer cell-mates, last week, he could not be brought to court for the hear­ing as he was still re­ceiv­ing med­ical at­ten­tion for mi­nor in­juries, he com­plained of up­on his ar­rest. Valenti­no is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court on Tues­day.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, last week, Prison Com­mis­sion­er Ger­ard Wil­son said that the men would be se­cured at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca, af­ter their court ap­pear­ances.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, some­time be­tween last Tues­day night and Wednes­day morn­ing, the men es­caped through a small hole in the wall of their cell in the south wing of the re­mand fa­cil­i­ty.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve that the men used a hack­saw to cut through bars and then re­moved two ven­ti­la­tion blocks.

Hours af­ter the es­cape, Austin, Janet, Mo­hammed, John­son and Valenti­no, who were all on re­mand for dif­fer­ent mur­ders, were ar­rest­ed near Rock Park Ho­tel in St He­le­na.

Sealy was ar­rest­ed the fol­low­ing day while walk­ing along El Car­men Road in St He­le­na.

Sealy was one of three men who were charged for the armed rob­bery of five em­ploy­ees and a pa­tron of Is­land Beer Chill and Grill in South Park, San Fer­nan­do, in Jan­u­ary.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were still search­ing for Michael Find­ley, of Laven­tille, and Olatun­gi Den­bow, of Port-of-Spain, up to late yes­ter­day.

A $50,000 re­ward has been of­fered for in­for­ma­tion on the where­abouts of the two men, who are among five men charged with the dou­ble mur­der of two con­struc­tion work­ers in 2016 and sev­er­al oth­er se­ri­ous crim­i­nal of­fences.