A Jefferson man was apprehended after he allegedly broke out of the Greene County Jail Friday night.

Sheriff Steve Haupert says 33 year-old Andrew Lee Jensen was being taken to an interrogation room to call his attorney. As he was being taken back to his cell, Jensen ran from the jailer through an unlocked security door. He then smashed through another unsecured door and gain access to the front office area of the Law Enforcement Center. Jensen then went out the front door.

Haupert says two Jefferson Police Officers were able to find Jensen within 15 minutes in a nearby relative’s fifth wheel camper in the 300 block of East Harrison Street. Jensen was handcuffed and brought back to the LEC. No one was hurt in the incident and the only damage was to one of the doors.

Haupert notes that Jensen was not handcuffed because he was being taken through secured parts of the building. He adds that if the first door is usually locked, but it wasn’t that night. It was the first time anyone had escaped from the jail in Haupert’s 18 years with the Sheriff’s office.

Jensen was charged with escape and fourth degree criminal mischief. He is being held at the medical and classification center in Coralville.

He is charged with two felonies in Greene County for allegedly stealing vehicles this past October.