Story Created:
Feb 6, 2012 at 11:57 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Feb 7, 2012
Law enforcement in Laredo on high alert tonight trying to find an inmate that escaped from the Webb County Jail.
Webb County Jail inmate, 19-year-old Joel Garcia, escaped through a window on Monday night. The window was on the bottom floor and appeared to be a janitor’s closet.
Garcia was incarcerated for theft and burglary and is known to be a drug addict.
He was captured around 10:30 p.m. Monday on the corner of Clark and Seymour.
He escaped around 6:30 p.m.
The police department spotted him, and after a short chase, arrested Garcia.
