Escaped Inmate From Shelby County Job Site Captured In Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM, AL - An inmate from the Childersburg Work Release Center who escaped a job site in Shelby County has been captured after nearly a month on the run. Jerry Randolph Anthony was taken into custody about 7: 20 a.m. Thursday in Birmingham at Valley Brook apartments.

Anthony escaped May 10 from a job site in Columbiana. He was discovered at the Birmingham apartment complex by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies and Alabama Department of Corrections agents. The lawmen had to force entry into the apartment, and after several attempts to make verbal contact with him, he finally exited and was taken into custody.

Authorities also took into custody 36-year-old Kim Saunders of Birmingham who was with Anthony at the time of his arrest, according to an Alabama Media Group report. Saunders will be charged with hindering the apprehension of an escapee. She is being held without bond at the Jefferson County Jail.

This is not the first time Anthony has escaped a work release job site. In 2013, Anthony escaped from a community work center in Camden. He was found by U.S. Marshals a week later In Revere, Alabama, hiding in a home.

Anthony was convicted in 2008 of assault in Montgomery County and sentenced to 50 years in prison.