By Associated Press - Thursday, June 1, 2017

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Corrections and other authorities are searching for an inmate who went missing in Hattiesburg.

Authorities say 56-year-old Anthony Boyd Lamar escaped Wednesday while on a work detail at Tatum Park. He was last seen wearing the green and white striped prison uniform.

Lamar is serving 16 years for residential burglary in Copiah County.



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