Monroe County inmate escapes during work detail
Cody Allen Patterson | Courtesy: Sheriff Tommy Jones of Monroe County Sheriff’s Office
MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) received a report around 1:50 a.m. Tuesday morning that an inmate worker assigned to GlasMasters in Sweetwater, Tenn., had walked off the job site.
During an investigation by the Sweetwater Police Department and the MCSO, 28-year-old Cody Allen Patterson was discovered to have cut off his ankle monitor in the parking lot of GlasMasters, then driving off in a white 1998 Dodge Ram 3500 flatbed truck with a Tennessee tag ‘H321106’.
Patterson was serving a 3-year sentence for vandalism, parole violation, violation of probation, and burglary.
He had approximately eight and a half months remaining in his sentence.
Patterson is now wanted for felony escape and theft of a motor vehicle, and has been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
The MCSO is urging the public to assist them in locating Patterson.
Anyone with information on his location can contact the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center at (423) 442-4357.
