PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - Authorities in West Virginia are searching for two jail inmates from the same facility who removed their leg monitors while out on a passes in separate incidents, officials said Thursday.
A Wood County magistrate issued a felony arrest warrant Wednesday after Jeremy Dean Johnson failed to return to the Parkersburg Correctional Center, the Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a news release.
Johnson, 28, was serving a 20- to 40-year sentence for breaking and entering, grand larceny and burglary. The statement described Johnson as 5-foot-4 and weighing 120 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. He has tattoos on his left forearm and his right hand.
In another news release, corrections officials said 56-year-old Alfred Williams cut his electronic monitoring strap as the Parkersburg work-release inmate was in Vienna around 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Williams is 5-foot-8, 250 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He is serving an eight- to 15-year sentence for domestic assault, domestic battery and delivery of a controlled substance.
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