UPDATE:
Officers with the Martins Ferry Police Department located Gregory Leukanudos on Wednesday evening. He is being transported to the Belmont County Jail.
ORIGINAL STORY:
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department is searching for an inmate who escaped from the Wintersville EOCC on Wednesday morning.
Deputies are looking for 26-year-old Gregory Lekanudos, who was last known to live in Bridgeport, Ohio.
Lekanudos was discovered missing at 8 a.m. during a headcount of inmates.
He was last seen wearing a dark-colored hoodie, white shorts and spandex pants, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department.
His original charges were out of Belmont County.
