NATCHEZ — After a day and a half of searching, law enforcement officials found an escaped Franklin County prisoner and his accomplice late Monday night near Hobo Forks Road in Adams County.

Authorities chased Isaac Allen Garner, 17, who escaped from the Franklin County Jail Sunday evening, until bloodhounds caught up with him around midnight Monday.

Search teams from the Angola, La., penitentiary found Garner and his cousin Anthony Carol Day, 18, in the thick woods near Hobo Forks Road, Adams County Sheriff Ronny Brown said Tuesday.

“They had been following the creek beds,” Brown said. “There are no roads or anything else down there. I guess they had bedded down for the night.”

When they heard the officers and the dogs, the two turned themselves in, he said.

Franklin County deputies began searching for Garner Sunday evening. When they received information he was in Adams County, other agencies became involved.

Deputies from the Franklin and Adams county sheriffs’ offices, the Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, state troopers and Louisiana and Mississippi corrections officers were involved in the search.

Franklin County Sheriff James Newman said he was pleased with the work of everyone involved.

“We held a perimeter around the area,” Newman said. “They kept running the dogs and finally wore the two boys down. (The two) backtracked several times, but the dog team stayed on them.”

Garner is being charged with felony jail escape, assault on a law enforcement officer after allegedly assaulting a jailer and destruction of county property, glass in a door, during his escape.

Day will be charged in Adams County with accessory after the fact to felony jail escape, Newman said.

Newman said he wanted to thank the other agencies involved in the search.

“Everybody really helped out good,” Newman said. “Ronny (Brown) and his men did a good job of taking care of business. Everybody did.”