The second of two inmates who escaped from the Gulf County Detention Facility on Tuesday was recaptured Thursday evening in Calhoun County.
Authorities arrested Chad Edward Johnson after an intense search in southern Calhoun County where a van he had reportedly stolen was found on a trail just north of the intersection of Highway 71 and SW Carlos Peavy Road.
The search included K9 tracking teams from Gulf, Calhoun and Jackson County along with the aviation unit from Calhoun County.
Johnson was located by the Leon County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit just after sunset using a helicopter equipped with a thermal camera system and was apprehended without incident and transported to the Calhoun County Jail.
Johnson and 21 year old Rex Arron Veasey, Jr., escaped from the Gulf County Detention Facility in Port St. Joe just after midnight Tuesday.
Veasey was captured by Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputies around 11:05 Tuesday morning, just inside Franklin County, after he was observed in the woods by a civilian employee of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
After his capture, Veasey was booked into the Franklin County Jail and faces new charges of Escape from a Correctional Facility and one count of Attempted Murder.
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