A Roane County escaped inmate was captured today. Deputies, along with Harriman Detective Brian Turner and the U.S. Marshals Smoky Mountain Fugitive Task Force, took Cameron Simpson into custody at a residence on Riggs Chapel Road this morning. Simpson was transported to the Roane County jail. Simpson left a inmate work detail in Harriman last Friday during a lunch break and took a Harriman street department pickup truck in the process. Sheriff Jack Stockton says the vehicle was later found unoccupied on Powers Loop Road in Morgan County.

(picture courtesy of the Roane County Sheriff’s Department)