Overview

• The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says 36-year-old Troy Dugas was mistakenly released early Sunday from the county jail and remains at large.
• Records show he was sentenced to five years in Fort Bend County for family violence assault and two years in Brazoria County for evading arrest.
• He had been held in Harris County since Aug. 14 to face separate domestic-violence charges that were dismissed after his Fort Bend guilty plea.
• Staff failed to note his state sentences, resulting in release instead of a transfer to state custody, and the sheriff’s office has opened an investigation, calling it the second reported mistaken release this year.
• Authorities asked anyone with information to call 911 and described Dugas as a 6-foot-1, 215-pound Black man with a neck tattoo.