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CUTHBERT, GA --
Terrell County Sheriff's deputies need your help finding an inmate that has escaped from New Horizon Drug Treatment center in Cuthbert.

Officials say that 34-year-old Homer Lee Cobb escaped the center around 11 AM Thursday after a tan Chevrolet Z71 was spotted nearby with no tag.

Investigators add that the subject made his way to Dawson and has plans to come to Albany after making contact with his mother and girlfriend.

Cobb is 5'9", weighs 167 pounds,  and has tattoos on his right arm, leg and side of the neck.

If you have any information on the whereabouts of Cobb, you are encouraged to contact the Terrell County Sheriff's Office at 995-4488.

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