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Escaped prisoner recaptured in Moultrie

by James Kennedy

Posted: 10.19.2010 at 3:38 PM

Timothy Metrakos ran away from work detail

Timothy Metrakos

ALBANY, GA -- An escaped inmate from the Colquitt Correctional Institution is back behind bars.

33-year-old Timothy Metrakos ran away from a work detail near Georgia Highway 37 in Moultrie on Monday.

He was captured about 3 hours later in a nearby subdivision.

Metrakos was serving sentences for kidnapping, robbery, burglary, and aggravated assault.

He will be charged with escape by the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office – a charge that could mean an additional one to five years in prison.

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