The third of four recent escapees from the Macon-Bibb County Jail has been recaptured.
According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, 37-year-old Johnifer Dernard Barnwell was arrested early Sunday morning in Augusta.
A SWAT team from the Federal Bureau of Investigation helped apprehend Barnwell, who at the time of his escape, was being held for the U.S. Marshal Service.
Barnwell’s recapture comes a month after he and three others used power tools and outside accomplices to escape through an upper-story window and a fence at the Bibb County Jail.
One escapee, 52-year-old Joey Fournier, who is wanted for murder, remains at large.
The Associated Press reported that Fournier was being held on a murder charge in connection with the 2022 death of his ex-girlfriend when he and the others escaped.
Chavis Demaryo Stokes, 29, was caught on Oct. 26; Marc Kerry Anderson, 25, was captured on Nov. 3.
Video footage from the day of the escape showed that a blue Dodge Challenger had been just outside the jail hours before the escape. Video also appeared to show someone tampering with the fence. That individual then brought some items into the enclosed area, and the sheriff said investigators believe the items were used to help the men escape.
This article comes to Now Habersham in partnership with GPB News
