HUMBOLDT — A Webster County Jail inmate escaped briefly Friday afternoon while being transported to the Humboldt County Jail due to overcrowding.

According to press releases from Webster County Sheriff Luke Fleener and Humboldt County Chief Deputy Cory Lampe, at about 2 p.m. Friday, a Webster County deputy was transporting three inmates to the Humboldt County Jail, where they were to be housed. While the inmates were being escorted from the transport van into the Humboldt County Law Enforcement Center, 32-year-old Jesse D. Carlson made a run for it.

Video provided by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and posted to Facebook by the 97.7 The Bolt radio station shows Carlson was the second of three inmates to exit the Webster County transport van. Carlson walked into an entry door of the Humboldt County Law Enforcement Center before running back out and fleeing. The video shows he ran past a Humboldt Law Enforcement Center employee who was holding the door at the time and the third inmate who was walking toward the LEC door.

Body camera footage also provided by the HCSO to The Bolt showed a K-9 officer track Carlson to the back seat of an unlocked SUV that was parked near a garage. The press release from the HCSO indicates this was in the 100 block of Fifth Street North in Humboldt. Several officers then took him back into custody.

As a precaution, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office placed all Humboldt schools in lockdown, according to the release.

According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, Carlson was out of custody for less than 20 minutes.

After Carlson was apprehended, he was returned to the Webster County Jail to be placed on lockdown. He will be charged with escape in Humboldt County District Court, according to Fleener.

The Humboldt Police Department, Iowa State Patrol and City of Humboldt Public Works employees assisted.

Carlson was initially in custody for first-degree harassment, an aggravated misdemeanor, for allegedly threatening to shoot a woman if she didn’t turn service on for a cell phone.

Carlson also has a history of absconding from custody. On two occasions earlier this year — once in February and once in March, Carlson was charged with voluntary absence from custody for failing to return to the Fort Dodge Residential Correctional Facility. A plea and sentencing hearing for these charges is scheduled for Monday in Webster County.