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Woman Arrested After Fleeing

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A Warsaw woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon after failing to return to work release and is now being held on a $100,000 bond.

Michelle Anne Poe, 23, of 304 S. CR 325E, Warsaw, was booked into Kosciusko County Jail at 5:24 p.m. Tuesday and charged with failure to return to work release though the charge on her booking sheet said escape.

According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department, Poe was at work release, working in Warsaw, when she signed out at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 22 and never returned.

The women's work release program is run out of the jail.

Poe was initially sentenced to four years with two of those being suspended.

The Indiana Department of Corrections mandated that Poe be enrolled in its Community Transition Program which takes inmates of prisons and puts them back in the communities they are from to work.

Poe had been in the county's work release and according to records had only two months left before she was to be let out of work release.

Police recieved anonymous tips and were able to detain Poe at a trailer in Green Acres trailer park.