{"id":149477,"date":"2026-02-03T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149477\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:53:10","slug":"inmate-captured-after-escaping-tarrant-county-laundry-facility-officials-say-second-escapee-in-as-many-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149477\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate captured after escaping Tarrant County laundry facility, officials say; second escapee in as many days"},"content":{"rendered":"

The laundry facility is located in the 5400 block of Resource Drive in southeast Fort Worth off Southeast Loop 820.<\/p>\n

FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 A Tarrant County inmate was captured after escaping from a sheriff’s office laundry facility Tuesday afternoon, officials said.<\/p>\n

The laundry facility is located in the 5400 block of Resource Drive in southeast Fort Worth off Southeast Loop 820. The inmate was confirmed to be at-large shortly before 1:30 p.m. and was then reported to be captured about 10 minutes later, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n

More details were not immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was the second escaped inmate in as many days<\/a> for the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

Tarrant County deputies found inmate Carlos Romero on the grounds of a mobile home manufacturing company after an extensive search Monday. Authorities said Romero escaped earlier in the day while being transported.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Bill Waybourn explained that Romero managed to escape during transport around 11:45 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a little fella, and once on the van, the best information I have right now is that he was able to slip out of the cuffs, jimmy the door, and he left the van,\u201d Waybourn said.<\/p>\n

The escape triggered a manhunt that lasted more than two hours. Deputies had just picked Romero up at the Green Bay Facility in North Fort Worth before he escaped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The laundry facility is located in the 5400 block of Resource Drive in southeast Fort Worth off Southeast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-149477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}