ERWINVILLE, La. (WAFB) - An escaped inmate in West Baton Rouge Parish is back in custody, according to deputies.

Authorities said the inmate, Randall Boyett, 23, was being transported from one facility to another Monday morning, October 6, but did not make it where he was supposed to.

“This morning, around 8:45 a.m., we received a call from a transportation van out of Webster Parish Sheriff’s Office who advised that one of the inmates they were transporting from their facility to another facility had escaped,” said WBRSO public information officer Sgt. Landon Groger.

The Louisiana Department of Corrections tells WAFB Boyett was inside a Webster Parish Sheriff’s Office van and heading to Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel when he somehow got out in Erwinville.

He was being lo

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