Hudspeth County sheriff’s deputy is expected to be OK after she was hit by a truck Monday night during the pursuit of three escapees from a county jail known for its celebrity guests.A sheriff’s spokesman said the three inmates overpowered two guards to break out of the Hudspeth County jail.

Channel 14-KFOX reported that the three escapees stole a sheriff’s Ford Mustang patrol car and led authorities on a 100 mph chase for 40 miles.

After the pursuit entered far east El Paso County, a deputy was trying to slow down on the left lane of Interstate 10 to lay down tire spikes when she was hit by a truck, the spokesman said. The deputy was taken to an El Paso hospital and is expected to recover.

Texas state troopers used spike strips to stop and arrest the escapees. The chase involved state troopers, sheriff’s deputies from Hudspeth and El Paso counties and the U.S. Border Patrol.

The identity of the escapees and the charges they are facing were not immediately available.

Otero County Detention Center administrator Virginia Blansett said Tuesday that the three Hudspeth jail escapees are Otero County inmates.

Blansett said the escapees were being housed in the Hudspeth County jail for OCDC.

“The Texas Rangers continue their investigation of the escape,” she said. “At this point, I can’t release the names.”

OCDC holds about 208 inmates.

When OCDC has overcrowding issues the facility houses inmates in the Hudspeth County jail, which is in Sierra Blanca,

Texas. OCDC also houses a few inmates at the Otero County Prison in Chaparral because of overcrowding or for health care reasons that OCDC is unable to provide for an inmate. The Otero County Prison is contracted to also house federal prisoners.”We house inmates at Hudspeth County because it’s more cost effective to Otero County,” Blansett said. “They also provide the transportation back and forth of the inmates.”

The Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office is best known for the drug arrests of country singer Willie Nelson, rapper Snoop Dogg and most-recently singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, who was arrested last month after marijuana and hashish were allegedly found in her tour bus at the Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca.