3rd Man Who Escaped Georgia Jail in Mid-October Is Captured, One Still at Large

MACON, Ga.—The third of four men who escaped from a Georgia jail last month was captured Sunday morning at a home in Augusta, local and federal authorities said. Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, 37, was captured in a home where police also found large quantities of drugs, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI. Mr. Barnwell was being held on drug charges when he and three other inmates escaped through a damaged window and a cut fence at the jail early Oct. 16. Authorities continue to search for 52-year-old Joey Fournier. Georgia news outlets reported that Mr. Fournier was being held on a murder charge in connection with the 2022 death of his ex-girlfriend when he and the others escaped....