LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – An Upper Lake man who walked away from an inmate work detail over the weekend has been arrested.
Alden Vincent Miller, 50, was reported missing from the crew shortly before 4 p.m. in Upper Lake last Saturday, July 7, while working for the Lake County Public Services Department.
He was a minimum custody inmate who had been in custody on a drug-related charge, according to sheriff’s officials.
Sgt. Steve Brooks of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of Second and League streets in Upper Lake shortly before 9 p.m. Monday on a reported sighting of Miller.
Deputies located Miller on Mendenhall Lane and took him into custody without incident, Brooks said.
Miller was arrested for escaping from custody and transported to the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility and booked. He is being held without bail.