MARION COUNTY — Bail has been set at $100,000 for a 26-year-old Patoka man who failed to return from furlough so he could begin serving a prison sentence.

Salem police arrested Jeremy Lippert on an outstanding warrant charging him with escape. Lippert was sentenced to three-years in prison on a conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

Judge Mark Stedelin allowed Lippert to have a furlough with the agreement he turn himself in to the Marion County Jail on July 26.

Lippert failed to turn himself in on the 26th and the warrant was issued for his arrest. He was arrested when Salem officers were responding Monday to a report of people attempting to break in to a home on South Marshall.

Lippert was reportedly found coming out of the home and in the possession of a syringe. He was taken in to custody along with 27-year-old Sarah Howell, of Centralia.

Howell was reportedly sitting in a car outside the South Marshall residence. According to police, Howell was sitting in the area of a backpack and purse that contained methamphetamine and multiple syringes.

They were both transported to the Marion County Jail.