TUPELO, Miss.- Police are looking for an inmate who walked away Tuesday afternoon from the Lee County Work Center in downtown Tupelo.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports, Montecuz Montez Goliday, 23, of Verona, was working off fines from Tupelo Municipal Court.
He was scheduled to be released from jail next month.
Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson says the work center only houses prisoners convicted of misdemeanor crimes where there was no victim of violence.
When captured, Johnson says Goliday faces a felony charge that carries a sentence of five years in prison.
