UPDATE: Macon County Jail inmate captured, second inmate remains at large

UPDATE: The Macon County Sheriff’s Office is reporting the capture of one of the two inmates who escaped the Macon County Jail, Thursday. The Montezuma Police Department says Raquan Ray was captured on July 29, 2023 at 12:07 am in Columbus, Georgia. Currently, he is being held at the Muscogee County Jail.

Law enforcement is still searching for Bobby Anthony Minor. Officer Smith with the Macon County Sheriff’s Office says Minor is believed to be in the Decatur, Georgia area because he has family in that location. Smith says the two men escaped through an air vent of the jail on Thursday while working was being done on an air duct. Smith says all inmates have been removed from the jail for planned renovations.

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MONTEZUMA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – According to a Facebook post by the Montezuma Police Department, police are looking for two escaped inmates.

The Montezuma and Oglethorpe Police Departments say Bobby Anthony Minor and Raquan Ray, escaped from the Macon County Jail on Thursday.

(Bobby Anthony Minor)                                (Raquan Ray)

Investigators believe the inmates are not in the area, and say all other inmates in the Macon County Jail are being transferred out.

If you have any information or know where Minor and/or Ray are, call 911 or the Macon County Sheriff’s Department at (478) 472-6447.