Galarza was serving 15 months for larceny, receiving stolen property and operating a motor vehicle without a license. His sentence was due to end on Sept. 14.
Update: Richard McCarthy reports that Galarza was found and taken into custody shortly after 11 p.m. Friday.
SPRINGFIELD - The Hampden County Sheriff’s Department launched a search Friday night for an inmate who failed to report to the Day Reporting Center on State Street, officials said.
Sought is Julio Galarza, 19, of Springfield, said Richard McCarthy, spokesman for Sheriff Michael Ashe.
Galarza was serving 15 months for larceny, receiving stolen property and operating a motor vehicle without a license. His sentence was due to end on Sept. 14.
He is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 163 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.
For the last several months, he had been placed in the Day Reporting Program, a low-security program for non-violent low-risk offenders that allows them to live in the community providing they check in each day at the program offices on State Street.
McCarthy said jail officials suspect Galarza failed to report because he had learned that he was scheduled to be transferred back to the Hampden County Correctional Center in Ludlow for repeated rules infractions with the Day Reporting Program.
Galarza is considered to be of minimal risk to the public, but people should exercise a matter of caution if they encounter him.
Anyone who knows where he is asked to call the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office at (413) 547-8000, extension 2191