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Second escaped Ga. inmate caught, sister arrested for aiding escape

The two were caught after visiting their grandmother in a nursing home

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Joshua Fountain (Thomas County Prison Image)

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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