An accused child murderer who escaped from Baltimore County custody Monday has been arrested.
Inmate Billy Martin, 25, of Conowingo, was arrested at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of Kingston Road in the Essex area. Maryland State Police and Baltimore County police received information he could be in that area, said Cpl. Mike Hill, a county police spokesman. He was arrested without incident. Martin is charged with first-degree escapee and is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
Martin, who was held at the Baltimore County Detention Center, was able to escape from a work site Monday ? only minutes after officials learned he?d been charged with murder.
Martin working at the county?s Cockeysville landfill when he was able to “walk away” without detection by jail guards around 6:30 p.m., said James O?Neill, administrator of the Baltimore County Department of Corrections.
Martin was serving a six-month sentence for misdemeanor theft less than $500 and was not considered an escape risk, O?Neill said.
But jail officials were informed at 6:15 p.m. Monday that a Cecil County grand jury had indicted Martin on a charge of second-degree murder for the 2006 killing of his five-month-old son, Calob Martin, according to O?Neill and Baltimore County police.
Martin was working on a 3 to 11 p.m. shift when he escaped.
“Certainly until about 6:15 last night, we had no reason to believe Mr. Martin was a risk,” O?Neill said Tuesday.
