A minimum-security inmate who walked away from his work assignment Tuesday at Columbia Farms in Greenville has been taken into custody.
About 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, 39-year-old Joe Dean Bellis was spotted in a car with two other men along White House Road in Greenville.
The car was pulled over and Bellis was taken into custody.
Bellis, who was serving a four-year sentence for grand larceny at the minimum security Livesay Correctional Institution in Spartanburg, was transported to the Greenville Detention Center and will later be taken to a maximum security prison.
He faces a felony escape charge and up to 15 more years in prison.
The two men with Bellis are being held at the Greenville Detention Center and face charges of aiding and abetting a fugitive.
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