BEAVER CREEK INMATE WHO ‘ELOPED’ BACK IN JAIL

GRAVENHURST — A client of the federal government who “eloped” on the weekend is back behind bars.

Saturday, Gordan Putnam, 56, was reported as an escapee from the Beaver Creek prison (medium security section) at the north end of town here.

On July 28, 2019, provincial police (OPP) at Bracebridge say they “began investigating the elopement of an inmate that had been serving a sentence at Beaver Creek Minimum Security Institution located on Beaver Creek Road in Gravenhurst.”

Gordan Putnam was reported escaped on Saturday and was caught on Monday.

The OPP Canine Unit and Emergency Response Team (ERT) members searched the area well into the night, but ultimately determined that he had been picked up.

A Bracebridge resident saw a man dressed in red summer attire, with a back-pack, jumping the fence at the Muskoka Airport next door mid-afternoon, about the time the inmate was reported missing.

Early Monday, the OPP report that t

He is facing one count of being unlawfully at large and appeared in the Ontario Court of Justice on Tuesday July 30.

Police say they would like to thank the members of the public who called in their tips to help with this investigation.

The ROPE team captured Putnam in Mississauga July 29, two days after he walked away from Beaver Creek prison in Gravenhurst.