Paul Egan

Detroit Free Press

LANSING — A potentially dangerous state convict who was accidentally released by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday was recaptured Thursday afternoon, officials said.

Police, state corrections officials and U.S. Marshals spent hours searching for the felon after he was mistakenly released from the Oakland County Jail, officials said.

Johnnie Rogers, 24, also known as Johnny Rodgers, was serving time in state prison for assault with intent to commit murder and armed robbery when he was released — and was considered an escapee, said Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz.

He was re-arrested without incident just before 5 p.m. Thursday after Detroit police executed a traffic stop on the west side of Detroit. Corrections officials and U.S. Marshals joined Detroit police in surrounding the vehicle, he said.

Rogers was in the Oakland County Jail since Aug. 1 in connection with court proceedings on a concealed weapon charge until Wednesday, when he was to be turned back over to the Michigan Department of Corrections, Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe told the Free Press. Instead, he was set free by mistake.

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Sheriff's deputies found out they shouldn't have released Rogers when his mother called to say he had come to her Detroit home, in the 7 Mile and Livernois area, and she didn't think he should be at large, McCabe confirmed. By the time deputies arrived at her home to pick him up, he was gone.

As for the mistaken release, "we'll get to the bottom of this," through an investigation now under way, McCabe said. "It's obvious human error has occurred."

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Rogers was supposed to be returned from Oakland County to the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson, where he is serving a 7- to 15-year sentence on state charges, handed down in November 2015.

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