Two Lincoln Correction Center escapees are still at large Saturday morning.Â
A search has been underway since late Friday morning after police say Armon Dixon, 37, and Timothy Clausen, 52, crashed a stolen pickup truck into a parked car at 18th and F streets following a brief pursuit.
Capt. Jeri Roeder of the Lincoln Police Department said no significant progress was made in the search overnight, and officers continue to scour a perimeter set up near the Friday morning crash site where Dixon and Clausen fled on foot.
The perimeter basically covers G to J and 16th to 19th streets.Â
Jan Crosby, who lives in the Plaza V Apartments at 705 S. 18th St., said a team of law enforcement officers searched her apartment Friday night around 8:30. She was out walking in her neighborhood Saturday morning armed with a stun gun.Â
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"We're all worried," Crosby said of her neighbors. "We're all on high alert."
A nearby resident who lives on E Street was running a garage sale Friday and Saturday and witnessed the crash. He said Saturday morning that he doesn't think the search has cut into the number of shoppers, and as time passes, he said his worries about the escaped convicts are dwindling.Â
"If those guys made it past all those officers, they have to be pretty far from here by now," he said.
Police said people in south Lincoln -- specifically near 18th and G streets -- who see any evidence their homes may have been entered should call police immediately. Look for cut screens, damaged doors, etc.
Both Dixon and Clausen are considered dangerous, and anyone who sees them should call 911 immediately.
Friday afternoon, authorities spent hours searching near U.S. 77 and Saltillo Road after someone reported seeing two people who matched descriptions of the inmates running through a cornfield nearby.
Roeder said the area south of Lincoln is no longer a focus for federal, state, county and local law enforcement helping in the search.Â
This is a developing story. Stay with for updates.