Authorities overnight apprehended the inmate who escaped from the Jefferson County Correctional Facility on Friday evening.
Here is an update from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office:
UPDATE 01/23/2021: Suspect Robert Lake is in custody. He was arrested at approximately 1230 this morning in the area of Tyler and Cleveland St. In Beaumont.
He will be booked back into the Jefferson County Correctional Facility where he may face a multitude of additional charges.
Original Enterprise post:
Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Jefferson County Correctional Facility just before 6 p.m. Friday.
Robert Orlando Lake, 39, of Beaumont reportedly climbed his way through the ceiling, Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Crystal Holmes said.
Lake then climbed the fence at the edge of the facility, cutting himself on the concertina wire, Holmes said. The inmate is believed to have found a truck parked at a nearby business with the keys inside.
Lake fled in the 2020 Chevrolet truck deeper into Beaumont and was tracked by the owner using the OnStar service to the neighborhood around Gladys Street and Mangolia Street. The Beaumont Police Department responded and approached the suspect, who ran away on foot.
As of 9:30 p.m. on Friday, police and sheriff’s deputies were searching a perimeter between Magnolia Street and Interstate 10, looking in yards, alleys and other places.
The public is urged to not approach the escapee but to call 9-1-1 with any information.
Lake was being held on a local charge of felony possession of a firearm and a robbery warrant out of Mississippi.
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