For Immediate Release

Monday, June 27, 2016

Contact: John Guilfoil
Phone: 978-971-8101
Email: john@jgpr.net

Essex County Sheriff’s Department Seeking Inmate Who Walked Away from Pre-Release Facility

BOSTON — Essex County Sheriff Frank G. Cousins Jr. reports that the Essex County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the public’s help in locating an inmate who walked away from its pre-release facility.

MICHAEL HOLMES, AGE 46, OF LYNN, walked away from the ESCD Lawrence Correctional Alternative Center on Saturday, June 25 at approximately 10:30 p.m.

HOLMES, who was being held on $2,000 bail for a larceny charge, was admitted to the Essex County Correctional Facility on June 7.

He is described as a white man, medium build, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall, with partially balding gray hair and a gray goatee. He was last seen wearing a black shirt, black pants, and white sneakers. HOLMES has three distinctive tattoos: a Boston Bruins logo on his upper right arm and a wolf on each arm. In addition, HOLMES walks with a limp on his left leg and may be wearing a knee brace on the same leg.

Anyone with information regarding HOLMES’ whereabouts is asked to contact the Director of Security Dave Earle at 781-858-3636 or Superintendent Aaron Eastman at 978-423-6757.

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