Bill Stites, a St. Tammany Parish work-release inmate who had been missing since Tuesday, was arrested near a Slidell home Thursday morning by Sheriff’s Office deputies acting on an anonymous tip from someone who saw the escapee walking to a home off Old Spanish Trail.
Stites was working at Windmill Farms in Washington Parish with a handful of other work-release inmates.
When a Northshore Workforce Solutions van arrived Tuesday afternoon to take the inmates back to the program’s Covington facility, Stites wasn’t there, according to George Bonnett, a spokesman for St.