Search underway for escaped inmate in Hancock County, area schools on lockdown

HANCOCK COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — The Hancock County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man who escaped from the Hancock County Jail. The sheriff's office posted that Joshua Wayne Metcalf, 48, had escaped from custody just after 10 a.m. on Thursday. HCSO said they were asking for the public's help in locating him. At approximately [...]