A 17-year-old who escaped from the state Department of Juvenile Justice complex last month is now at the county jail facing armed robbery and carjacking charges, police said.

Acting on a tip, Columbia police arrested Raymond Harrison Wednesday night at an Econo Lodge on Fort Jackson Blvd., said police spokesman Skot Garrick. Investigators had received information that Harrison was in the area prior to his arrest, he said.

On Oct. 23, Harrison and a 16-year-old escaped from the minimum-security John G. Richards campus at the Department of Juvenile Justice complex on Broad River Road. At the time, an agency spokeswoman said the two were not considered dangerous.

But police said that Harrison is a suspect in two armed robberies and one carjacking as recently as this week.

One of them included Tuesday’s armed robbery of a store in the 2100 block of Oak Street, police said.

He is also accused of a Nov. 2 armed robbery in the 1500 block of Westminster Drive. Police said an armed man approached a 34-year-old woman and demanded her car keys. The man fled in the woman’s vehicle, Garrick said.

Police believe Harrison also may have been involved in an incident Oct. 23, the day of the escape.

Around 10:30 p.m. that night, a man approached a 46-year-old woman as she entered her vehicle in a parking lot in the 1100 block of Bower Parkway, Garrick said. The suspect fled in the vehicle with a second man.

Bail amounts had not been set Wednesday, Garrick said.

Reach Gonzales at (803) 771-8405 or jgonzales@thestate.com.