Inmate who escaped southeast Columbus security facility back in custody
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — One of four inmates who escaped from a Franklin County minimum security facility Thursday has been taken back into custody.
30-year-old Jeremy Bowen was arrested on Friday, according to a spokesperson with the Franklin County Jail. He faces a third-degree felony charge of escape and is scheduled to appear in Franklin County Municipal Court for his arraignment hearing on Tuesday morning.
Bowen was one of four inmates who escaped Thursday from the Franklin County Community-Based Correctional Facility on the 1700 block of Alum Creek Drive. He is the first to be re-arrested.
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The other three, Nikko Burton, Mark Long, and Michael Norton, remain at-large.
Bowen previously pleaded guilty to burglary charges in three separate incidents in 2014, 2015, and 2016 and was sentenced to three years in prison, followed by an undetermined amount of community control time.
Bowen was charged on three separate occasions for stealing laundry detergent or Tide pods. He was accused three times of petty theft of those items with one incident in 2013 and two others in 2015. He has also been charged for petty theft of a package of t-shirts, burglary in 2014, and criminal trespassing at a Kroger in 2015.
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