Inmate at large after leaving minimum security camp next to Lompoc federal corrections facility

LOMPOC, Calif. (KEYT) – Friday night, an inmate was discovered missing from a minimum security satellite camp next to Federal Correctional Institution Lompoc and he is currently at large.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact the U.S. Marshals Service at 805-346-2728.

Joephry Raul Murrieta, 35, was serving an aggregate 255-month sentence for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and assaulting a federal officer following convictions in the Northern District of Texas and the Central District of California noted the Federal Bureau of Prisons in a press release Saturday.

Murrieta is 5' 11", weighs about 245 pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes shared the Department of Justice.

On March 6, around 10 p.m., Murrieta was discovered missing from the minimum security camp next to the federal correctional complex in Lompoc and the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the U.S. Marshals Service are now searching for him detailed the Department of Justice.