Search For Macon County Inmate Crosses State Lines

The search for the last of three men who escaped from the Macon County Jail this week has crossed state lines.

Sheriff Mark Gammons said agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Marshals, and officers from surrounding counties are actively searching for 32-year-old Jeffrey Strong.

One of the escapees, 19-year-old Dylan Ferguson, turned him self in to Trousdale County authorities yesterday. The other inmate, 28-year-old Matthew White, was arrested last night in Bowling Green Kentucky.

Jeffrey Strong was being held behind bars for drug and theft charges.