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With good behavior, Michael Littlejohn would have been eligible for parole from prison in two years. But authorities say he opted to leave a little earlier, hopping a barbwire-topped fence and fleeing a minimum security prison in Dallas on Saturday morning.
Littlejohn, originally of Lincolnton, was convicted in the early 90s of armed robbery, larceny and assault on a government officer and sentenced to 58 years in the minimum security facility.
Under the state's fair sentencing law, he could have been paroled as early as 2011.
Authorities don't know in which direction he fled. “Our first guess would be somewhere near home,” said Keith Acree, spokesman for the N.C. Department of Correction. Acree said the department had notified officers in Lincoln and other nearby counties that Littlejohn might be coming their way.
It wasn't the first escape attempt by Littlejohn. In March, 1994, he and two other inmates at the Lincoln Count Jail hit a jailer in the head with a metal pipe, took the keys and tried to escape, Acree said. The inmates didn't make it out of the building.
Anyone with information on Littlejohn's whereabouts should call Gaston Correctional Center at 704-922-3861.
