Four inmates who escaped from a Georgia jail last week are still on the loose, but the vehicle they used in their escape has been found.
The inmates broke out of the Bibb County Detention Center on the morning of October 16 through a damaged day room window and a cut fence, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post at the time. The escape occurred around 3:00 a.m., with a blue Dodge Challenger pulling up outside the jail and transporting the inmates away.
That Dodge Challenger was recovered on Friday, the Sheriff’s office said. The vehicle was located in the parking lot of a Biomat USA – a facility that collects blood plasma donations. The building is less than two miles from the jail.
Sheriff David Davis said in the post that he “appreciates the tips and every lead that we have received is being followed up on.”
The escaped inmates include 52-year-old Joey Fournier, a white male with gray hair and blue eyes who was being held at the detention center for alleged murder. The other three inmates are 24-year-old Marc Kerry Anderson, a black man being held for aggravated assault; 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, a black man being detained for the United States Marshals; and 29-year-old Chavis Demaryo Stokes, a black man being held for possession of a firearm and drug trafficking.
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office
The Sheriff’s Office asked anyone with information about the possible location of these inmates to call the FBI’s tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI or the United States Marshal Service at 1-877-WANTED2. Tips may also be submitted online at tips.fbi.gov or through the USMS Tips app.
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The Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the FBI, and the U.S. Marshals Service are also looking for the inmates, NBC News previously reported. Bibb County Sheriff Davis said at a news conference shortly after the escape that the inmates could be anywhere and may still be together or have split up.
“Somebody that sees this tonight knows where these four people are, and somebody is probably laughing at the TV set saying, ‘They’ll never get us,’” Davis said at the time. “We will catch them. They will come back to jail. It’s just a matter of time.”
This is the latest prison escape to make headlines this year, following the escape of convicted child sex offender Tommy Wayne Boyd in September, along with nine juvenile inmates in Pennsylvania, and convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante, also from Pennsylvania. Another inmate escaped from the same jail as Cavalcante earlier in the year. All of these escapees have been captured.