GRIMES CO. INMATE CAPTURED AFTER ESCAPE

  

An inmate who escaped from the Grimes County Jail Wednesday afternoon while working as a kitchen trustee was captured Wednesday evening.

The Grimes County Sheriff’s Office said 51-year-old Albino Guerrero was helping unload a food truck at the sheriff’s office in the sally port when he walked away from work detail shortly before 1:30 p.m.  He was not discovered to be missing until around 3:45 p.m.

The sheriff’s office said it was possible that Guerrero left the jail in a gray Honda CRV, but after a manhunt involving several agencies, he was ultimately captured on foot around 8 p.m. in the 5400 block of Highway 90, between Navasota and Anderson. 

Guerrero was originally arrested in July 2022 for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.  He made trustee in August 2022 and had no disciplinaries on his record while at the jail. 

Grimes County Sheriff Don Sowell told KPRC in Houston that Guerrero was able to escape because of “human error” in monitoring the inmates.

The sheriff’s office received assistance in the search from the Navasota Police Department, Grimes County District Attorney’s Office, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Rangers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice K-9 and Grimes County Precinct 2 Constable.