Fugitive James Fuller, 44, was discovered on North Street in Peoria Wednesday afternoon.

Peoria County Sheriff Mike McCoy says the escape of Fuller and Aaron Cook was extremely well planned, until they actually escaped.

"You have to be real dumb to escape from jail and then have no plan for what to do after you're off that wall," he said.

Fuller had been in the Peoria County Jail for two years on felony charges for home invasion and criminal sexual assault.

McCoy says Fuller worked on his escape for over a year.

He cut a hole in the plasterboard ceiling of his cell, scraped away at the two layers of cinder blocks above it with a tool he created out of something in his cell and flushed pieces of concrete down the toilet.

Four months ago he introduced 28-year-old Aaron Cook to his plan. He was in the jail pending charges on theft, obstructing justice and aggravated battery of a child.

The sheriff says Monday night the men managed to end up in Fuller's cell together, stand on a pile of books and escape to the roof through the hole.

They made a rope out of bed sheets tied together to repel down the building, but McCoy says the men decided it would not hold them and just jumped off.

"They then walked through fields and the area until they got to the north-eastern part of Peoria where they separated," he said, adding the men were not wearing their jail uniforms.

Nearly 14 miles later, Cook came to a friend's house on Spitznagel Street. Cook was arrested there around 2:30 on Tuesday. Brianne and Joshua Kulik, both 29, were arrested for obstructing justice.

Fuller came to a home on Tracey Street where he tied up the resident and stole a green Highlander. Hours later he ditched the car in Woodruff High School's parking lot, but kept a cell phone he found inside.

Throughout Tuesday night police used GPS pings from the cell phone, tracking Fuller to a block near Corrington and Prospect.

"There was a black male walking down the street, walking really slow. It startled me a little bit, I just got the kids inside, didn't pay much attention to it," said Rikka McGowan, who thinks she saw Fuller Tuesday evening.

On Wednesday Fuller was found in a vacant home next door to McGowan's house on North Street.

"It is a relief that these two gentlemen are back in jail because they are dangerous people. They have no business being in the public. They are where they belong and that is behind bars," said McCoy.

The Sheriff also said through interviews with the fugitives they have learned their plan was to "law low" in Peoria for five days and then follow truck routes out of town.

In total, five police agencies and several dogs worked to find the men.

McCoy says many changes will be coming to the Peoria County Jail. One of those changes includes rotating inmates between cells so no inmate is in the same cell for an extended length of time.