Escaped Monroe County inmate captured
Cody Allen Patterson | Courtesy: Sheriff Tommy Jones of Monroe County Sheriff’s Office
UPDATE: Escaped inmate Cody Allen Patterson has been located and taken back into custody without incident.
A Monroe County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) deputy was dispatched to a report of a suspicious person in the Corntassel area.
The caller’s description matched Patterson’s appearance.
The deputy searched the area, located Patterson, and took him into custody.
Patterson admitted during questioning that the truck he had stolen ran out of fuel in Loudon County.
He abandoned the vehicle and returned to Monroe County.
MCSO deputies contacted the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office, who were able to locate the stolen vehicle.
It has been towed to the MCSO impound lot.
The MCSO commends the citizen who made the report, thanking them for their role in safely concluding this situation.
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.
