Third man who escaped Reality House booked into Boone County Jail
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A third man who escaped from a private jail this month is now in the Boone County Sheriff's Department's custody.
The Boone County Jail's inmate roster on Friday showed Lawrence M. Johnson, 35, of Columbia had been booked on an escape from jail charge. The charge carries no bond. Lawrence is also charged with burglary, resisting arrest, failure to appear and domestic assault in separate cases.
The Columbia Police Department said in a news release that officers arrested Johnson Friday morning in the 3400 block of I-70 Drive S.E. after getting an anonymous tip.
Johnson was one of three men the sheriff's department said escaped from the private Reality House jail this month. Boone County had been contracting with Reality House to keep some prisoners because of overcrowding. After the escape, the sheriff's department said it pulled its inmates out of Reality House.
Two other men who escaped have already been arrested.
Columbia police arrested Jamale Marteen, 37, on Thursday. Tyrone McClain Jr., 28, turned himself in Saturday, the sheriff's department said.
Marteen was previously jailed on a warrant for failure to obey a judge's orders and McClain was jailed on charges including misdemeanor drug paraphernalia possession and resisting arrest, along with warrants for disobeying a judge's order and failure to appear.
