SMITH
SCRUGGS
Daily Journal
GREENWOOD – Law enforcement are still searching for two of the three men who escaped from a Greenwood facility early Monday morning.
According to the Mississippi Department of Corrections, two probationers and a parolee escaped from the Greenwood Restitution Center in Leflore County around 2 a.m.
Michael Smith, who was serving a 7-year sentence from Prentiss County, was captured hours later by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
Officials are still searching for Corey Scruggs, who was sentenced in Pontotoc County for burglary, and parolee Kenneth Arrington, serving an 8-year sentence out of Washington County for car theft, burglary and felony malicious mischief.
All three were ordered by the courts to a restitution center until they have paid off all their fees and fines.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Scruggs is asked to call MDOC at 662-745-6611.