McGEHEE, Ark. (AP) – Police in McGehee say an escape from the city jail has been recaptured in Texas.
Police Chief Jim White told reporters that authorities acting on a tip found and arrested 40-year-old Jeremy Lynn Barnett on Friday in Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Barnett was being held at the McGehee Criminal Justice Facility on a parole violation and was awaiting bed space at Arkansas Department of Correction.
Police say he escaped Oct. 8 through a small hole in the recreation yard fence while the on-duty jail officer was distracted.
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