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UPDATED 6/6/2022: Offender James Nicholas Jacobs (1183393) was apprehended at 4:35 p.m. Monday, June 6, 2022, in Lumber River State Park on Princess Anne Road, approximately 20 miles south of Robeson CRV Center in Lumberton, from which he escaped Sunday night.
A Prisons Emergency Response Team (PERT) member found Jacobs inside a trailer and arrested him without incident. He will be returned to prison, and escape charges will be filed. Investigators are looking into how he escaped.
RALEIGH - Correctional staff and law enforcement officers are searching for James Nicholas Jacobs (1183393), who escaped Sunday night from the Robeson Confinement in Response to Violation (CRV) Center in Lumberton. Jacobs was discovered missing just after 8 p.m.
Jacobs, 31, was serving a 90-day period of confinement in response to a violation of his post-release supervision on a 2021 conviction of possession of a firearm by a felon. He was scheduled to be released on Oct. 4, 2022. He is an American Indian male, 5 feet 8 inches tall, with brown hair and hazel eyes. He has multiple tattoos on his neck, arms and torso.
The CRV centers house and provide intensive behavior modification programs for those who have committed technical violations of probation. CRV centers incarcerate violators for 90-day periods in response to violations of probation, parole or post-release supervision as provided in the Justice Reinvestment Act of 2011.
Anyone who has seen Jacobs should contact local law enforcement or the Robeson CRV at 910-618-5535.