Arrested escapee from Columbus security facility issued bond in court
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – One of four escaped prisoners, who was re-arrested over the weekend, was in court on escape charges Tuesday morning.
According to court records, 30-year-old Jeremy Bowen was issued a $500,000 bond on third-degree felony charge of escape after he and three others fled the Franklin County Community Based Correctional Facility last Thursday.
Bowen, the first and only to be re-arrested as of Tuesday, was serving time after three guilty pleas for burglaries committed in 2014, 2015, and 2016. His three-year prison sentence was followed by an undetermined amount of community control time.
Bowen was charged on three separate occasions for stealing laundry detergent or Tide pods. He was accused three times of petty theft of those items with one incident in 2013 and two others in 2015. He has also been charged for petty theft of a package of t-shirts, burglary in 2014, and criminal trespassing at a Kroger in 2015.
The three other fugitives, Nikko Burton, Mark Long, and Michael Norton, remain at-large. Bowen’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 3.