UPDATE, 4:42 p.m.: From the Sheriff’s Office:

Escaped Humboldt County Correctional Facility work crew inmate Jordan Benjamin Harris has not been located.

On Friday, Dec. 1, 2017 around 11 a.m. Harris, 28, escaped from an inmate work crew near the Ferndale Fairgrounds.

Harris is an American Indian male, 6‘0” tall, 170 lbs, with short brown hair, hazel eyes and a medium build. He has a tattoo of ‘Yurok’ on his neck.

The multi-agency search for Harris was called off at 3 p.m. Harris was last spotted in the area of Russ Park around 3:30 p.m. Sheriff’s Deputies and the Ferndale Police Department are still searching that area.

Anyone with information on Harris’ location is asked to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251.

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Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office press release: 

 

Just before 11 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017 Humboldt County Correction Facility Inmate Jordan Benjamin Harris, 28, escaped from an inmate work crew near the Ferndale Fairgrounds.

Harris is an American Indian male, 6‘0” tall, 170 lbs, with short brown hair, hazel eyes and a medium build. He has a tattoo of Yurok on his neck.

Harris was last seen running on Arlington Avenue towards Fifth Street.

Anyone with information on Harris’ location is asked to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251.