The final inmate of 4 men who escaped a Georgia jail and has been on the lam for a month has been caught, authorities said on Saturday.
The final inmate
of 4 men who escaped a Georgia jail and has been on the lam for a month has
been caught, authorities said on Saturday.
Joey Fournier, 52,
was apprehended near Stockbridge, Georgia just before noon on Saturday, Bibb
County Sheriff David Davis said in a news statement.
Fournier was being
held at Bibb County jail on a murder charge in connection with the 2022 death
of his ex-girlfriend when he and the others escaped.
"We are
grateful that this last escapee has been captured," said Bibb County
Sheriff David Davis.
Fournier, and
three others, 24-year-old Marc Kerry Anderson, 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard
Barnwell and 29-year-old Chavis Demaryo Stokes, fled from Bibb County jail on
Oct. 16 as they climbed out of a damaged window in a day room and then fled
through a cut fence.
Video footage
showed a blue Dodge Challenger just outside the jail at 3 a.m. local time.
The Dodge was
found abandoned in Macon, a city about 80 miles southeast of Atlanta the next
day.
Stokes, 29, who
was detained for possession of a firearm and drug trafficking, was caught on
Oct. 26; Anderson, 25, who was in jail
for aggravated assault was captured on Nov. 3, and Barnwell, who was in jail
for federal narcotics charges was caught Nov. 12. Barnwell, and an alleged
female accomplice, face federal charges.
Fournier is
expected to be returned to the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center later today,
the sheriff said.
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