By Patti Dozier
Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Ga.
THOMASVILLE — A Thomas County Prison inmate who escaped from a Thomas County trash collection site Tuesday is in Georgia Department of Corrections custody, and his sister is in jail.
Joshua Fountain, 28, was arrested in Telfair County about 4 p.m. Friday, along with his sister, Anna Lockett, an Eastman resident.
“She took him to a nursing home in McCrae to visit his grandmother,” said Capt. Steven Jones, Thomas County Sheriff’s Office public information officer.
The Telfair County Sheriff’s Office was provided with a description of the vehicle the duo was traveling in and tracked them after they left the nursing home.
Lockett is charged with aiding and abetting a fugitive.
Fountain, a former Eastman resident serving time for burglary, would have been eligible for parole in three years, said Bobby Geer, Thomas County Prison warden.
He will be questioned by members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force.
Geer said Fountain will be transported from Telfair County to a close-security Georgia prison.
Fountain and James Waldren escaped late Tuesday morning from a trash collection site on Boat Ramp Road off U.S. 19 North.
He was arrested driving a vehicle stolen from a Moultrie car dealership and is in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections and U.S. marshals in Dublin.
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