Authorities catch inmate who walked away from Wichita Work Release Facility

Update: Authorities have captured a parole violator who walked away from the Work Release Facility in downtown Wichita.

Kansas Department of Corrections agents and the U.S. Marshals Service caught George Young at a North Broadway motel at about 11 a.m. on Tuesday, a news release from the KDOC said. Young, 51, was arrested “without incident” and is currently being held in the Sedgwick County Jail, the news release said.

He was declared an escapee from the work release facility, on the corner of Emporia and Waterman, early Sunday morning.

Original story: Law enforcement officials are looking for a parole violator who escaped from a work release facility in Wichita.

The Kansas Department of Corrections said George Melvin Young Jr., 51, was declared an escapee from the Wichita Work Release Facility at 3:49 a.m. Sunday. He had been at the facility since March 13 and was serving time as a parole violator with a new sentence out of Sedgwick County. His most recent criminal conviction was in 2018 for theft.

Anyone with information on Young is asked to call the Department of Corrections at 620-221-6660 ext: 56218, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation at 800-572-7463 or local law enforcement at 911.

The Wichita Work Release Facility houses 250 minimum-custody male offenders.

This story was originally published May 27, 2019 at 11:02 AM.