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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 31, 2006
Defiance authorities continue to search for an inmate after he apparently walked away from his work site early Monday afternoon.
Authorities continue to search for Corey Marquell Dotson, 21, 338 Spencer, Toledo. He is described as an African American male, 5 feet-11 inches in height, 180 pounds, black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing an orange and white striped jumpsuit.
Dotson was last seen near the maintenance building at the Riverside Cemetery in Defiance. He along with another group of inmate workers were mowing grass in the area, broke for lunch and were about to resume work when a Defiance Parks Supervisor discovered Corey missing around 12:20 p.m. Monday.
Dotson had been incarcerated at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio in Stryker since June 29. On July 12 he was placed on the Community Corrections Program and assigned to work at the Defiance Parks site.
Dotson was serving a six-month jail sentence out of Lucas County Common Pleas Court on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, drug abuse and trafficking. His scheduled release date was November 8.
A felony escape charge has been filed against Dotson.
It was the first walk away from a community corrections work site since November 22, 2003 when an inmate walked away from a Henry County work site. The inmate was apprehended 15 days later by Lucas County authorities and received a prison sentence on the escape charge.
A total of 4,646 inmates have participated in the CCNO Community Public Works program that began at CCNO in 1994. There have been a total of 12 walk aways with all 12 apprehended.
Anyone with information about the Defiance work site walk away is asked to immediately contact the Defiance Police Department.
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