Inmate captured after brief escape from Wayne County Jail

A man being booked into the Wayne County Jail in downtown Detroit escaped through a window Wednesday night but was captured after being on the lam for less than two hours, a jail spokesman said.

Officers on the escapee’s tail cornered him quickly when he went exactly where they thought he’d go — to the home of the victim of his domestic assault victim.

Tavon Wisdom, 26, a Detroiter who was being booked into the jail for a domestic violence charge and a parole violation, got free shortly after 7 p.m., triggering a manhunt by Detroit police and Wayne County Sheriff’s deputies, said Ed Foxworth, communications director for the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office.

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Wisdom was taken back into custody at about 9:30 p.m. when he showed up at the home of his domestic-violence victim, Foxworth said. No further information was available about how the man, described as being 6-feet-tall but very slender, broke free from handlers and found a window from which to make his escape from jail system’s Division 1 facility, 570 Clinton, just north of Detroit’s Greektown area and just west of Greektown Casino.

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Inmate captured after escape from Wayne County Jail