Editor’s Note: James Nicholas Jacobs was captured Monday in Lumber River State Park on Princess Ann Road in Orrum, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.

RALEIGH – Offender James Nicholas Jacobs, who escaped from the Robeson Confinement in Response to Violation Center in Lumberton on Sunday night, was returned to custody Monday afternoon.

A Prisons Emergency Response Team, PERT, member found Jacobs inside a trailer at 4:35 p.m. in Lumber River State Park on Princess Anne Road, approximately 20 miles south of Robeson CRV in Lumberton, where he was discovered missing just after 8 p.m. Sunday, according to the Department of Public Safety. He was arrested without incident.

Jacobs, 31, was serving a 90-day period of confinement in response to a violation of his post-release supervision on a 2021 conviction of possession of a firearm by a felon. He was scheduled to be released on Oct. 4, 2022.

He has been returned to prison, and escape charges will be filed. Investigators are looking into how he escaped.

CRV centers house and provide intensive behavior modification programs for those who have committed technical violations of probation. CRV centers incarcerate violators for 90-day periods in response to violations of probation, parole or post-release supervision as provided in the Justice Reinvestment Act of 2011.