The search has ended for the suspected getaway driver in an alleged drug drop at Lee Arrendale State Prison. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office in northwest Georgia recently arrested Leticia Erika Perry.
Authorities transported Perry to Habersham, where she was booked at the county jail late Friday night, June 9.
Three-week-long search
The 28-year-old from Summerville was the subject of a three-week-long search. Officials say that Perry fled, injured and bleeding, after wrecking into a pickup truck driven by a state prison guard who was trying to stop her.
Authorities charged Perry with multiple offenses, including aggravated assault, driving on a suspended or revoked license, failure to report an accident, criminal interference with government property, and a seat belt violation. They also charged her with two counts each of illegal possession of a controlled substance and being party to a crime.
During a first appearance hearing Monday morning, June 12, Mountain Judicial Circuit Judge B. Chan Caudell denied bond for Perry on the charges.
Search and alleged accomplice
The incident at the prison happened before dawn on May 24. It prompted an immediate search in Alto with a helicopter and K9s, but authorities could not locate Perry.
They did locate her apparent accomplice.
Police tracked Devonte Jenkins, 26, of Dalton, to a location in Cornelia and arrested him nine hours after the incident.
The Georgia Department of Corrections charged Jenkins with possessing prohibited items, bringing contraband across guard lines, and four counts of possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute mushrooms, ecstasy, meth, and marijuana.
Jenkins was released from jail on a $33,600 bond.
