Escaped Inmate Back in Jail in Gregg County

LONGVIEW — The Gregg County Sheriff’s Office has recaptured Jace Martin Laws. Lt. Josh Tubb told KTTB on Friday, that Laws was arrested in Gladewater, early on Friday morning. Laws had a brief taste of freedom after carving out portions of the brick inside a jail wall, on Thursday afternoon. He eventually made his way to the exterior of the Gregg County Courthouse. Laws was found to have shaved his head and was wearing a black jogging suit.