Bastrop, Tx–A Bastrop County Jail inmate assigned to a county road work detail disappeared this afternoon, according to an announcement from the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Department.
Authorities are now looking for Ross Brandon Brekhus, 24, a white man described as five feet six inches tall with blonde hair and blue eyes and weighing about 148 pounds. He was jailed on an auto theft charge and disappeared from a county road crew work assignment today, said Sissy Jones, an assistant in the sheriff’s office. Brekhus might also be identified by three “upper body” tattoos and at the time of his disappearance, near the intersection of FM 535 and Jeddo Road, was wearing an orange jail jump suit.
Anyone with information about where Berkhus may be located is asked to call the sheriff’s department at (512) 303-1080.