CLEVELAND (AP) - Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from a troubled county jail in Cleveland.
Cleveland.com reports The U.S. Marshals Service, sheriff’s deputies and investigators are searching for 30-year-old Ferdinand Torres-Varga, who escaped from the Cuyahoga County Corrections center sometime Tuesday or early Wednesday.
County officials initially said the jail was locked down Wednesday morning for a headcount. A county spokeswoman later confirmed Torres-Varga’s escape.
He was arrested Sunday on a felony domestic violence charge and misdemeanor charges of endangering children, aggravated menacing and marijuana possession.
It’s unclear how Torres-Varga managed to escape the downtown lockup.
Three inmates at the jail have been mistakenly released in recent months, including a man accused of murder.
A U.S. Marshals investigative report last November called conditions at the jail inhumane.
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