HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ A search continued late into the night for a fugitive Walker County Jail inmate. That’s after sheriff’s officials say the inmate overpowered a guard and fled the jail, despite having been granted a new trial after his 2006 murder conviction was overturned.
Trent De’Ray Archie of Huntsville was being held on a drug possession charge in a general jail population cell when he escaped and likely armed himself during his getaway drive. The search remained focused in this city 60 miles north of Houston while authorities determine whether the 29-year-old had driven outside the area.
Chief Deputy Butch Davis said leads were being pursued as midnight approached Tuesday night, but no sightings had been reported.
The single-story jail has a capacity of 162 inmates and housed about 150 Tuesday
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