Holmes County inmate escapes from jail

Published 2:23 pm Wednesday, July 4, 2018

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement officers are searching for an inmate who escaped from the Holmes County jail.

News outlets report that twenty-year-old Michael Amos escaped Wednesday morning from the Holmes-Humphreys Regional Correctional Facility.

Investigators could not immediately say how Amos escaped, but said he should be considered armed and dangerous.

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He was being held on charges that include burglary, aggravated assault, armed robbery and felony taking of a vehicle.