Man escapes from recovery center and is transported back to jail

HELTONVILLE – A Bedford man was arrested on Friday, November 4th when Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department deputies responded to Transitions Recovery at 580 Diamond Road after a report a male had escaped from the recovery center. 

Zachery Fields

While en route, officers received information that the director and a tech had located 27-year-old Zachery Fields and were returning to the recovery center.

Fields was ordered to be released from the Lawrence County Jail on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, into the custody of transitions recovery for lawful detention.  

Deputies detained Fields on a charge of escape from lawful detention and transported him to jail.