An inmate who was reported missing from the Community Corrections Center – Lincoln is back in the custody. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services says Richard Reynolds was arrested Wednesday by the Council Bluffs Police Department on new charges.
He was booked into the Pottawattamie County Jail. Reynolds disappeared on December 1 when he left his work location in Waverly. When staff members from the facility went to look for him, they found the monitoring device he had been wearing in a parking lot near 148th and Cornhusker Highway.
He started his sentence on December 28, 2017. He was sentenced to seven and a half to 13 years on charges out of Adams and Lancaster counties that include use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, third degree domestic assault, assaulting a peace officer, escape and theft by unlawful taking.
Reynolds has a tentative release date of January 24, 2024.