Final Whitley County Jail escapee caught Sunday in Tennessee

After a week on the run, a man who escaped from the Whitley County Detention Center has been captured.

According to Whitley County Jailer Ken Mobley 37-year-old Jessie Terry was apprehended Sunday by Claiborne County Tenn. Sheriff’s Deputies at a home in Clairfield, Tenn.

"He’s got holders on him in Tennessee for some misdemeanor stuff, but we should get him back here in a day or two," Mobley said shortly after learning Terry had been captured.

Terry, along with an accomplice, 44-year-old Ronald Sisk, ran away from the jail while working in the kitchen area. They left out of a secure door. Officials believe the door had been tampered with, allowing the duo to push it open and make a run for freedom.

Sisk turned himself in to jail officials about 12 hours after esaping in the early morning hours last Sunday. Terry, however, has been more elusive.

A massive manhunt by deputy jailers, Williamsburg police and Kentucky State Police focused mainly on the Kensee Hollow area in extreme southern Whitley County. Terry was never caught there, but police were still active. Residents in the area received a total of 86 citations and 18 arrests were made, one for cultivating marijuana. nine vehicles were impounded and two ATVs.

Mobley said he believe Terry had help from friends and other sympathizers to elude authorities and get out of the state.

"I think he’s been down there in Tennessee since right after he got out. I think he went the next day," Mobley said. "There’s no way to prove it, but I think he had help."

Mobley said Terry was caught at the home of Laura Rhinehart. He does not know why Terry was at that residence, or how he knows Rhinehart.

Like Sisk, Terry will be charged with felony escape once he is returned back to Kentucky.

Terry was in jail for theft, receiving stolen property and for being a fugitive from another state.