Quarantined inmate reported missing

LINCOLN  -- The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services reports a missing inmate who had been quarantined due to COVID-19.

A press release says 28-year-old Davaughn Johnson had been granted parole pending completion of quarantine, but surveillance video showed him jumping a fence at the Community Corrections Center in Lincoln on Wednesday.

 Johnson began serving a sentence in 2012 and had been at the center since August of 2020.

Officials say Johnson was in a quarantine cell about a half hour before he was discovered missing.