An inmate who escaped from the Issaquena County Jail Tuesday morning was captured several hours later in a wooded area a few miles from the jail, Issaquena County Sheriff Richard Jones said.

Marium Anton Smith, 31, is a state inmate serving a 25-year sentence from Montgomery County for two counts of armed robbery. He went missing around 9 a.m., Jones said.

Deputies found him at about 4 p.m. in a wooded area five miles from the jail with the help of K-9 units from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Pachman and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations.

How Smith escaped remained under investigation, Jones said.