NORTH VERNON — An inmate on work release at St. Ann’s Golf Course disappeared but was later caught after a search.
At about 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jennings County Sheriff’s deputies discovered inmate worker Christopher D. Gullion, 23, Rising Sun, was not accounted for and a search began. Sheriff Gary Driver asked Sgt. Allen Ritchie and K9 Vampir to help with the search and the dog provided the direction the inmate traveled.
At 4:45 p.m., Driver and Sgt. Jim Blevins located a male walking west on the railroad tracks behind Componx Plastic Injection Mold. When they asked him to stop, they said he ran south across Buckeye Street into a field.
Officers set up a perimeter and resumed the search. Gullion then crossed a shallow part of the Muscatatuck River where he was captured by Reserve Deputy Doug Brown.
Gullion told officers he had located a change of clothes in a garage and disposed of his black and white striped jail uniform and orange ball cap. He was arrested on preliminary charges of escape, theft and resisting law enforcement, deputies said.
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