Escaped inmate is captured

On May 30, Sheriff Charles Guillory received a phone call from a local Lafayette television station advising that Jody Thomas Thrasher, an inmate who escaped from the parish jail on Sunday, May 28, had called and was wanting to turn himself in. The T.V. station was in the process of setting up a surrender location after Thrasher said he was on his way to Giraud Park.
The Lafayette Police Department and the Lafayette Sheriff’s Department were contacted and were awaiting his arrival.
Thrasher then called the T.V station back and said he would meet them at the city hall. Thrasher then called back later and said he was at a local business on the north side of Lafayette.
Lafayette Police Department then called off the search since it was clearly a game Thrasher was playing with the local T.V. station and a complete waste of manpower and resources.
Later in the evening of May 30, Thrasher arrived at a hospital in Lake Charles for a injury to his foot that he sustained when he jumped from the top of the 20-foot exercise yard wall. He was taken into custody by the Lake Charles Police Department once he was released from the hospital. Thrasher was then returned to Ville Platte and is back in EPSO custody.
Sheriff Guillory would like to thank the Lafayette Police Department, the Lafayette Sheriff’s Department, the Lake Charles Police Department, and the local T.V station for there help in capturing Thrasher.
Thrasher was in custody for drug and gun charges.