Marshal's Service locates AWOL prisoner

NEW CASTLE, Pa.

Police caught a prisoner who failed to come back to the Lawrence County Jail after a furlough.

New Castle police and the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force found Durand Lawson, 20, Wednesday afternoon in the 100 block of West Wallace Avenue in the city, the Marshal’s Service reported.

Lawson was temporarily released Saturday to attend his brother’s funeral and was to be back at the jail by 2:30 p.m. He did not return.

He was in the jail on felony drug charges, the Marshal’s Service said.