FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio — Jacob Benajmin Loper, the inmate who reportedly walked away from the Franklin County Corrections Center on Wednesday, is now in custody, according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.
Loper, 20, was checked into the jail on Jackson Pike on Monday for several felony drug charges out of West Virginia. Loper is facing three counts of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to use and carry a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
Loper was scheduled to be handed over to the U.S. Marshals Service, according to the sheriff’s office. Instead, he walked away from the facility and was seen climbing into a vehicle waiting outside.
Loper was taken into custody just after 4 a.m. Thursday, less than 24-hours after he walked away from the corrections center.
In addition to federal felony drug charges, he is now facing a néw charge of felony escape.