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Police are currently searching for a man who escaped from a Philadelphia correctional center on Thursday.
Gino Hagenkotter, 34, was an inmate at the Riverside Correctional Facility, located in the Holmesburg section of the city. He was serving a sentence for drug and theft charges, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Hagenkotter was working in an orchard near the facility at about 11:45 a.m. when he asked the corrections officer watching him if he could use the restroom. When he didn’t return the officer checked on him and realized he had fled.
Officials said they believe he jumped over a fence and went through a sanitation yard that is next to the prison, 6ABC said. Surveillance video shows him going through a parking lot and then walking down the a nearby street.
Hagenkotter is 5′6″, 140 lbs., and has brown eyes and grey hair. He was last seen wearing a white short-sleeved t-shirt, blue pants and dark-colored boots. Officials warn that although he was in minimum custody, h should not be approached and that anyone who sees him should contact the authorities.
Police said Hagenkotter was supposed to be released on Thursday for a court-ordered program but the date was pushed back to April after it was learned he was involved in a retail theft in Bucks County. Officials said they suspect that might have been the reason for his escape, NBC10 reported.
Hagenkotter is the fourth person to break out of a Philadelphia-area jail this year, the Inquirer said.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call 911 or the Philadelphia Police at 215-686-8477.
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