HAMMOND, La. — A manhunt was underway in Tangipahoa Parish after an inmate trustee working a job on Southeastern Louisiana University’s campus walked off the job site and could not be found.
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office says Gary Michael Frith, 48, is an inmate trustee who was in custody and working with a clean-up crew on the school's campus Friday morning when he apparently walked off the job site.
The sheriff's reports that Frith is back in custody after a search was underway and caused a large police presence on the university’s campus.
Before he was brought back in custody the sheriff's office says Frith was last seen walking toward Martin’s Drive in the Hammond area around 7:30 a.m. and had been reported to have been picked up at the Waffle House on University Ave in a white sedan according to the sheriff’s office.
Frith is a DOC inmate who had been incarcerated in the parish jail since September 2022 following a probation violation.
