An inmate who escaped from a Mississippi detention facility has been recaptured – but a second man is still on the run.
The pair broke out of Raymond Detention Center, about 15 miles west of Jackson, on Monday morning (May 29) just a little over a month after four other men had escaped the same jail.
Michael Lewis, 31, and Joseph Spring, 31, were discovered missing following a head count conducted after a deputy noticed items and “what appeared to be blood” near the facility’s outer perimeter fence, Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said in a news conference.
Lewis was captured Monday evening and faces additional escape charges, the sheriff said in an update posted on Twitter. He added that a search was still ongoing for Spring.
Officers discovered the escape after finding there had been a breach in the ceiling of one of the facility’s rooms.
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They believe that’s how the two men got out, the sheriff said during an earlier news conference.
“We believe that they were able to get access to an air duct within the facility, which led to the exterior of the facility where they were able to go over a fence and escape,” Jones added.
Spring, who had been at the facility since November, was being held on probation and parole violations, burglary and also “what appears to be a hold with other agencies as well,” Jones said.
Weeks earlier, on April 21, four other men broke out of the same jail by escaping through the roof.
Two of those detainees were apprehended, one was killed in a shootout with law enforcement and the fourth was found dead in a car in New Orleans.
“A female acquaintance was also arrested and is facing charges stemming from this investigation,” the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office said in statement.
