UPDATE: Thames has been located and taken into custody in Ascension Parish.

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DENHAM SPRINGS - Authorities are trying to track down a work release inmate who walked away from a job site in Livingston Parish Tuesday.

The sheriff's office says 28-year-old Clifton Allen Thames was last seen around 10 a.m. Tuesday at a construction field in Denham Springs. Authorities said law enforcement officers have exhausted all efforts to find Thames.

He was working under a privately-operated work release program in Livingston Parish named Lock5 LLC.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call LPSO at 225-686-2241.