Inmate who walked off from Harrison County work center back in custody

An inmate is back in custody after escaping the Harrison County jail this morning.

Harrison County inmate Chase Lizana is back in custody in Gulfport after a nearly two-hour stint running away from authorities.

Now, Lizana would escape the jailhouse by jumping over barbed wire fence working at the work center on site.

Sheriff Matt Haley said, “So, we had several different locations. The first one was by the power company and we had another sighting off of Dedeaux Road and then an officer spotted him at the back of Pine Hill subdivision. I cannot thank enough the agencies that help support us.”

Sheriff Haley says 25-year-old Lizana traveled nearly three miles before his capture in the woods at the intersection of Tandy Drive and Sharp Boulevard in the Loren Heights community.

We are told the inmate ran into a Family Dollar, grabbed clothes, and ran out. Residents in the area spotted him walking around. “Was out here walking or whatever. We seen the man, but the man was acting regular. The man was just walking around. Then when the police, the man turned into the Flash, he took off, he was gone. So, they said the man was back there, you heard me. We got to walking, it turned to Fast and Furious. You heard me, cars out the back. Straight undercover, straight fed cars. So, they all went back there. Next, thing you know they let the dog out. The dog went back there and got that man.”

Haley says the security of the work center poses no threat to the community and shares the extended time Lizana may be facing. “We don’t question that at all. You know these trustees that are out at the work center, they’re low risk. They don’t have any history of escape, no violent past, or anything of that nature. You know, again, unfortunately, these sort of things they happen. He will be charged with escape. On an average that adds five years to a sentence.”

According to the Harrison County Jail Docket, Lizana was arrested by Long Beach Police in January on two counts of burglary of a shed, grand larceny, and two counts of commercial burglary.