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Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from police custody at a Manhattan hospital. The prisoner, identified as Yenchun Chen, was in the custody of the Department of Corrections at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Gramercy around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the New York Police Department. He was taken there for a medical problem on Friday and had been receiving care before he fled. The police officer said Chen climbed out of a fifth-story window and escaped with sheets into the street. Minutes later, the 43-year-old man got into a yellow cab heading south on Second Avenue, police said.
NEW YORK — Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from police custody at a Manhattan hospital.
The prisoner, identified as Yenchun Chen, was in the custody of the Department of Corrections at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Gramercy at around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the New York Police Department. He was taken there for a medical problem on Friday and had been receiving care before he fled.
The police officer said that Chen climbed out of a fifth-story window and escaped with sheets into the street. Minutes later, the 43-year-old man got into a yellow cab heading south on Second Avenue, police said. It is unknown why he was in custody.
Surveillance photos of the suspect were released later Wednesday as the search for Chen continued. He was described as being approximately 6’3″ tall with brown eyes and black hair. He also has tattoos on his left arm and left hand.
Chen had been arrested for criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of this person is asked to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-888-57-pista or log on to the Crime Stoppers website.
2023-08-10 15:19:57
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