Inmate flees work release on stolen motorcycle

A manhunt is underway for a work-release inmate who the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office said showed up astatine enactment Tuesday, stole a motorcycle and left.

Acting Limestone County Sheriff Mike West said 35-year-old Joel Dwight Gooch showed up to enactment astatine Vulcan Plastics connected Durham Drive successful Athens connected Tuesday greeting but past near astir 8:30 a.m. connected a achromatic Kawasaki motorcycle belonging to different employee. 

The sheriff's bureau said Gooch is serving a condemnation for kid support.

Gooch is 5'7'' and weighs astir 135 pounds.

If you person immoderate information, telephone the Limestone County Sheriff's Office astatine 25-232-0111 

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