(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Sutter County Sheriff’s office reports a man wanted for violation of his post-release conditions has drowned in the Feather River.

24-year-old Frank Atkins of Marysville was attempting to escape capture last Thursday morning at around 7:30 as Sutter County Probation located him. The Marysville Police Department and another probation officer were notified for assistance. They then, “pursued Atkins near the Feather River” just north of the 10th Street Bridge, when he jumped off an embankment “of his own volition,” at which time he then fell into the cold water, went under and did not surface.

After a search by both the Yuba City Fire Department’s Swift Rescue Team & a Butte County Sheriff’s Department helicopter team, Atkins was found dead in the water.