BAKER COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - UPDATE 10:47 a.m. 11/22/2017 - Deputies have arrested a Baker County Detention Center employee in connection to an inmate's escape from the facility Monday evening.
The Baker County Sheriff's Office says they arrested 43-year-old Gregory Shedd, who is contract food service employee at the detention center.
They say Shedd is the employee who pushed an inmate, Dakota Carter, out of the detention facility in a garbage cart on Monday, helping Carter escape the premises.
Detectives issued warrants for Shedd's arrest on Monday. The next evening, Shedd turned himself in.
He has been charged with introduction of contraband into a detention facility and aiding in an escape. A $100,000 bond was assigned for each charge.
The Baker County Sheriff's Office has captured an escaped inmate and arrested the accomplice who aided him.
According to the Sheriff's Office, the inmate, Dakota Carter, escaped from the Baker County Detention Center Sunday evening by hiding in a garbage cart.
They say surveillance footage captured Carter on the facility's premises Monday at 7:45 p.m., about 15 minutes before deputies responded to the detention center for the escape.
Deputies say Baylee Barber picked Carter up from a location near the detention center to help him escape. However, he was found and arrested early Monday morning at a hunting camp in Echols County.
Both Carter and Barber have been charged for the escape.
Prior to his escape, Carter was facing charges of: Possession of a weapon by convicted felon, possession of methamphetamine within a specified area, possession of drug paraphernalia, armed burglary to a dwelling or structure, grand theft and grand theft of a firearm.
