A murder suspect from Chicago who was released from prison by mistake was captured in metro Atlanta late Friday, officials said.
Garrett Glover, 29, was arrested in Lithonia about 11:20 p.m. by Atlanta-based U.S. Marshals Service agents, according to a news release from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois.
Glover was arrested in the apartment of a person believed to be a relative's girlfriend, and he was found asleep on the floor, according to Cook County officials.
Glover is charged in connection with the deadly shooting of a 25-year-old man on the Dan Ryan Expressway, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Glover was erroneously released Feb. 24 and processed onto the Illinois Department of Corrections parole program, according to the sheriff’s release.
He was sentenced to two years for a 2014 attempted armed robbery, The Associated Press reported. For that crime, he already had done more prison time than his sentence.
The erroneous release from prison was discovered Monday. Since then, agents from Cook County and the marshals service teamed in a manhunt for Glover.
Jim Joyner, Atlanta-based spokesman for the marshals service, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that agents identified someone who was believed to be an associate of Glover’s and placed that person under surveillance.
Glover was found and arrested without incident. “Everything went smoothly,” Joyner said.
Glover will be extradited to Cook County. He will face additional charges of escape as well as parole violations, Cook County officials said.
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