The Daily Commercial
LEESBURG, Fla. — A 19-year-old Sorrento man, wanted for fleeing Lake County while on probation, is in a lot more trouble now after escaping from Michigan jail.
Cody Barber, whose last known address was 31 Columbia Ave., was in a temporary holding cell in Coldwater, Mich., pending an extradition hearing for probation violation out Lake County, when he escaped from the jail Wednesday, NEWS 8 in Grand Rapids is reporting.
County corrections officers were in the process of investigating pounding noises in the jail when a cellmate alerted them to Barber’s escape through a window, the television station said. Officers went outside and saw the suspect’s footprints in the snow.
They couldn’t follow the tracks and alerted other law enforcement agencies about the escape, NEWS 8 said. A Coldwater police officer noticed someone matching the escapee’s description, walking along State Street in Coldwater, and tried to speak with him, but Barber reportedly fled.
He was later chased down by Coldwater police officers, assisted by sheriff’s deputies, and charged with escape, destruction of police property and resisting arrest.
Barber was arrested in Lake County in September 2011 and charged with aggravated assault with a weapon but with no intent to kill, court records show. He was sentenced last February to five years of probation but was listed as an absconder/fugitive when he failed to report to his probation officer and they could not find him.
Jail records here say Barber is a Michigan native.
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