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Recaptured Lumpkin inmate faces new charges
Toilet breakout nets accusations of escape, interference with property
larry farmer
Larry Farmer
A Lumpkin County inmate captured late Wednesday after he spent nearly 24 hours on the run has two more felony charges to add to the seven he already was facing. After he was caught about a half-mile from the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office, Larry Lavaughan Farmer was charged with escape and criminal interference with governmental property, Sheriff’s Lt. Wesley Burnett said Thursday. Farmer was captured just before 11 p.m. Wednesday at the entrance to an apartment complex in Dahlonega, after a resident at the complex saw him and called 911, Burnett said.