But He Is Quickly Brought Back To The Rural Russian Prison

It looked like something right out of a Hollywood movie. A man on a rope suspended beneath an MI-2 helicopter being lifted out of a Russian prison. But it wasn't Hollywood, it actually happened.

Aleksey Shestakov, a 36-year-old man 10 years in to a 24-year sentence for two murders, admitted to using a cell phone to book the helicopter to airlift him out of the prison near the small Russian village of Sheksna in central Russia’s Vologda Region, according to the Russian news service RT Novosti. There is even a short video of the escape ... and the prisoner being locked back in his cell.

Shestakov reportedly had two accomplices on the outside, who were also detained by the police. One, a woman named Tatyana Vazhalina, told investigators she had actually conceived of the plan. She had been corresponding with Shestakov in prison.

Shestakov was apprehended only a few hours after his escape and returned to prison. The accomplices were also found, and charges are pending. Russian officials are considering whether to bring charges against prison employees who may have allowed violations, such as the cell phone, which made it possible for him to escape.

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