A Monroe County inmate who took off from a work detail on Oct. 16 turned up Tuesday evening in McMinn County.

Monroe County Sheriff's Detective Jennifer Bledsoe said authorities had received word Ricky Gennoe was in McMinn County and searched for him with help from McMinn County and Niota officers.

He wasn't found at the time, but turned himself in later to the Sheriff's Office. Bledsoe said Gennoe told them he had watched as they hunted for him, but stayed hidden.

Gennoe disappeared from a work detail at Hiwassee College by stealing a truck. He was serving time on burglary charges and now faces additional charges of escape and theft of a vehicle over $1,000.

Bledsoe said Gennoe isn't saying much about where he was during the week he was gone or where the truck, which belongs to Hiwassee College, ended up.

"He doesn't want to be a rat," Bledsoe said. "But we think the truck will turn up eventually."