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Inmate found in Alabama
By ROBIN FITZGERALD
rfitzgerald@sunherald.com
A Pearl River County jail inmate who escaped Sunday is back in custody and faces a new felony charge.
Waylon Lee Strickland, 31, will be charged with felony escape when he is returned from custody in Alabama, said Justin Vickers.
Vickers is supervisory inspector of the U.S Marshal’s Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force in Gulfport.
Strickland walked away from a work detail Sunday afternoon.
Investigators with the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department, the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the U.S. Marshal’s Service investigated and determined that Strickland may have fled to Montgomery, Ala., where he had lived.
Task Force officers found him at an Alexander City motel about 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Vickers said Strickland was taken into custody without incident.
Strickland was serving three years on convictions from Greene County.
Records of the MDOC show he was convicted of possession of precursors and possession of a controlled substance.
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