Arkansas inmate escapes from jail for third time in 2 years

VAN BUREN, Ark. – A search is underway for an inmate who escaped from an Arkansas jail for the third time in two years, KFSM-TV in Arkansas reported Friday.

Jeromy Name escaped from the Crawford County Detention Heart via a duct vent at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 30. Name was sporting a black hoodie and dark-colored pants when he escaped, in response to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Workplace Fb web page.

Crawford County Chief Brad Wiley informed KFSM-TV nobody noticed Name escape, however he was caught on surveillance video leaving the jail. The chief added that Name’s household informed authorities they haven’t heard from him.

The Crawford County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned they acquired a number of leads however haven’t discovered Name. On Friday, police obtained a warrant for second-degree escape and at the moment are searching for help from U.S. Marshals to seek out him.

Name is serving a 10-year sentence on theft and weapons costs, in response to KNWA-TV in Arkansas. The 38-year-old man has brown hair and brown eyes, and authorities mentioned he doesn’t have a historical past of violence.

KNWA-TV reported that Name pleaded responsible to theft by receiving and possessing a firearm in reference to an incident in August 2020. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail on the theft cost and acquired a six-year suspended sentence for the firearms cost.

In accordance with KFSM-TV, Name was within the Crawford County Jail ready to be transferred to the Arkansas Division of Corrections after being sentenced in September on costs of “theft by receiving and felon in possession of a firearm.”

Name and one other inmate led regulation enforcement on a three-day search in Oct. 2021 after they escaped from a detention heart in Poteau, Oklahoma. Officers later discovered Name greater than 80 miles north of the place he escaped, KFSM-TV reported.

LeFlore County Sheriff Rodney Derryberry informed KFSM-TV that Name escaped from the LeFlore County Detention Heart in February 2021 whereas in jail for a number of counts of felony housebreaking.

This story was reported from Washington, D.C.