ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) – A fugitive was taken into custody on Wednesday after a three-hour standoff involving the Carter County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) and the U.S. Marshals Service on Gap Creek Road.
The U.S. Marshals Service said Jeffrey Scott Brewington, 42, was serving a sentence at a rehabilitation center (commonly known as a halfway house) in Knoxville when he reportedly cut off his GPS monitor and left the halfway house on June 2.
After failing to return to the halfway house, Brewington was charged with a federal escape charge, as he was still considered to be in the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons until the completion of his sentence at the halfway house, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
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On Wednesday, officers with the CCSO and the U.S. Marshals Service located Brewington at a house on Gap Creek Road, where he allegedly refused to come out of the home’s attic…