Inmate Who Fled San Diego Halfway House Recaptured In Carlsbad

SAN DIEGO, CA — An inmate who fled a San Diego halfway house where he was completing a criminal sentence was captured Thursday morning in Carlsbad, about 12 hours after going on the lam, authorities said.

Authorities took Larry Johnson, 51, into custody without incident around 10:30 a.m. at a hotel in Carlsbad, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He will be admitted into Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.

Johnson walked away from a Male Community Re-entry Program facility Wednesday in Barrio Logan. Staff at the facility on Boston Avenue were notified around 10:30 p.m. that Johnson's GPS tracking device had been disabled, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He had left the halfway house that afternoon on an approved work-related pass.

Johnson had been transferred to the facility in July to serve out the remainder of a four-year sentence he received in April 2019 for identity theft. He was scheduled to be released to probation in May 2021.