By Shaun Bishop
San Jose Mercury News
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Investigators with the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office are looking for a 59-year-old drug offender who walked away Saturday from a minimum security jail in Redwood City.
Charlie Clay Johnson left the Sheriff’s Minimum Security Transitional Facility at about 10 p.m., according to a press release from the sheriff’s office. Deputies realized Johnson was missing after a routine security check of the campus, located just east of Highway 101.
Johnson, who was in custody serving a one-year sentence for drug possession, is a resident of San Francisco and officials say they believe he has returned to the city.
The transitional facility at 1580 Maple St. houses minimum security inmates who are preparing to be released back into the community, officials said. It has a capacity of 46 inmates and helps relieve overcrowding in the main men’s jail, the Maguire Correctional Facility.
Johnson is described as black/Filipino, 5 feet 8 inches tall, and 150 pounds with gray hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information about Johnson’s whereabouts is asked to call the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office at 650-363-4911 or Detective Frank Taylor at 650-363-4363.
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