Police searching for escaped inmate in south Alabama
MOBILE, Ala. (WIAT) — Police are searching for an inmate who escaped from a work detail in south Alabama.
Randy Jerome Richburg, 51, walked off from the Mobile Work Release at approximately 8:30 a.m. Friday from the Mobile CBF/CWC in Mobile. He is currently serving a 20-year-prison sentence for second-degree receiving stolen property.
Richburg is 5'11', weighs 220 pounds and has different tattoos of a cross, sniper, dream catcher and the phrase 'God only knows.'
Anyone with information on Richburg's whereabouts is encouraged to call the police or the Alabama Department of Corrections at 1-800-831-8825.
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