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UPDATE: Sutter County Jail Inmate Back In Custody

SUTTER COUNTY (CBS13) - A man who escaped from the Sutter County Jail on Wednesday night was arrested Friday afternoon and returned to custody.

Johnathan Nickolas Pattee, 26, was spotted by a Marysville police officer around noon and arrested without incident, according to the Sutter County Sheriff's Department. He was being transported back to the Sutter County Jail.

The Appeal-Democrat reports that Pattee's girlfriend, Dora Ann Willsey, 35, of Smartsville, on suspicion of aiding in the escape.

Pattee escaped from the jail just after 10 Wednesday night through a fire door, then cleared a 14-foot fence where there was a gap in the barbed wire.

Pattee had been serving a three-year sentence for driving a car without consent. He now faces an additional felony charge for the escape.

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