News & Record
LEXINGTON — Sheriff’s deputies are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Davidson County Jail about 12:45 a.m. today.
Bobby Ray Cabe Jr., 40, fled from the jail using a ladder, according to the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office.
Cabe is white, 190 pounds, 5 feet 9 inches tall, has brown hair and brown eyes, has a mustache and goatee, long brown hair and several tattoos, the sheriff’s office said. He is likely wearing a white T-shirt, white long johns, white socks and flip-flop jail shoes.
Cabe and two other inmates were placing trash bags in a dumpster in a fenced area behind the jail when Cabe escaped, according to the sheriff’s office. The trio was being supervised by a detention officer.
“Cabe was able to get out of sight of the officer for 15 seconds and reach a maintenance ladder attached to the wall and fled across the roof of the new courthouse,” according to a media release.
Law enforcement believes he then jumped to the ground, running to the Lexington City Cemetery. His jail-issued orange jumpsuit was found near the cemetery, according to the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff’s office and Lexington police searched throughout the night and are continuing the search this morning, the sheriff’s office said.
Cabe was under a $350,000 bond in Forsyth County for several charges. He was moved to Davidson County for a trial on misdemeanor injury to real property, larceny of a firearm and breaking and entering.
The N.C. Department of Correction website states he was released from prison last year and completed parole in May 2015 for felony breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering and larceny of a motor vehicle.
He has an arrest record dating back to 1992, according to the N.C. Department of Correction.
Anyone who has information about Cabe or sees someone fitting his description is asked to call 911 or the sheriff’s office at (336) 242-2105.