Jace Martin Laws, 34, is loaded into a transport vehicle by Cpl. Mark Polk of the Gregg County Sheriff’s Department Office on Monday.

LONGVIEW — An inmate who escaped from the Gregg County Jail, then was recaptured in Smith County, has been moved to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

By late morning on Monday, Jace Martin Laws was booked into the Byrd Unit in Huntsville, Gregg County Sheriff Maxey Cerliano said.

Laws was convicted on two counts of assaulting a police officer and escaped while awaiting trial on a third charge.

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