Overview

• Authorities say 36-year-old Troy Dugas was erroneously freed from the Harris County Jail on Sunday and remains at large.
• Dugas was sentenced to five years in state prison for assault on a family member in Fort Bend County and two years for evading arrest in Brazoria County.
• He had been held in Harris County since Aug. 14 on separate local charges that were dismissed, creating conditions for the release error.
• Preliminary findings indicate staff failed to document his state sentences in his file, leading to the mistaken belief he could be released.
• Deputies published his mugshot, issued a be-on-the-lookout alert, and urged the public to call 911, as scrutiny grows following a similar mistaken release in February.