MECHANICSVILLE, Md. — The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office says it has taken Andrew Phillip Nelson into custody after over a month of looking for him.
The 29-year-old was arrested in Mechanicsville on Wednesday on a warrant for Second-Degree Escape.
The Sheriff's Office received a tampering alert on Nelson's monitoring device on April 21st, and a witness told deputies he'd used bolt cutters to get it off.
Nelson had been on pre-trial release, facing charges of first- and second-degree assault.
The Sheriff's Office put out a public plea for help finding Nelson on Wednesday, May 14.
