SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say an inmate who escaped from the San Francisco County Jail has been caught.
Sheriff’s Deputy Enrique Lunquin said Wednesday that 40-year-old Timothy Midgett was arrested at a San Francisco homeless shelter without incident Tuesday night.
Lunquin says sheriff’s deputies received a call that Midgett was at the shelter as a sergeant and two deputies arrived and took him into custody. He is being held in jail without bail for felony escape.
Midgett fled from the jail on June 7 while taking out the trash. He had been granted special privileges because he was deemed a low-risk inmate and wasn’t a violent offender.
Midgett had been scheduled to be released on July 24 after serving a one-year sentence for a felony drug possession charge. He also still has a pending arrest warrant for drug charges in Houston.
