Department of Correction announces search for Dover work release offender and the apprehension of two offenders

The Delaware Department of Correction announces that a work release offender assigned to the Morris Community Corrections Center in Dover has failed to return to the facility as required. Offender Zachary Siok left the facility Friday, July 10 on an authorized work pass. After Siok failed to return later that evening as required, efforts to locate him were immediately undertaken and an escape warrant for his arrest was issued. Ongoing attempts to make contact with Siok have been unsuccessful.

Date of walkaway: July 10, 2015
Offender name: Zachary Siok
Age: 25
Last known address: Dover-Milford area
Race/Gender: White male
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 185 pounds
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown, with beard
Aliases/Nicknames: N/A
Scars/Marks/Tattoos: Tattoos on arms and chest
Current Offense: Siok is serving a sentence of level 4 work release for a conviction for burglary

Zachary Siok
Zachary Siok

Anyone with information on this offender is asked to call (800) 542-9524 or their local police department.

In addition, in two separate cases, the Department of Correction announces that the following work release offenders are back in custody:

– On May 24, Offender Frank Pope, a work release offender assigned to the Plummer Community Corrections Center in Wilmington, was found to be unaccounted during a routine offender count on May 24. A search of the facility failed to locate him and an escape warrant for his arrest was issued. On July 9 Pope was arrested by New Castle County Police Department officers, who arrested him on multiple drug charges and on an escape charge, and he was transported to Howard R. Young Correctional Institution where he is being held on $33,250 secured bail. Read the original press release.

– On July 7 Offender Jason McKenna, a work release offender assigned to the Morris Community Corrections Center in Dover, failed to return to the facility from an authorized work pass and an escape warrant for his arrest was issued. McKenna turned himself into the Smyrna Police Department on July 9 where he was arrested. He was transported to James T. Vaughn Correctional Center where he is being held on $5,000 cash bail. Read the original press release.