A convicted murderer mistakenly released from a Miami-Dade jail was recaptured in Georgia on Wednesday after a multistate manhunt, authorities confirmed.

James Edward Daniels , 60, also known as "45," had been sought since Saturday, when Miami-Dade County officials acknowledged he walked out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center (TGK) due to what they described as a "procedural error."

Daniels, who has a violent criminal history including a double homicide, was arrested in Macon without incident by the U.S. Marshals Service.

Tip leads to capture

Authorities in Georgia, with the Reynolds Police Department, said that the U.S. Marshals contacted them on Oct. 1 after receiving information Daniels might be hiding in the small Georgia town.

Investigators then reached out to a

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