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Last updated on Tuesday, February 16, 2016
(WASHINGTON) - The Daviess County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help in locating an inmate who escaped custody Monday night after being taken to a Washington hospital.
Daviess Community Hospital contacted the sheriff's department at 10:54 p.m. to report that 23-year-old Shane Michael Allen Cates of Washington had escaped through a second story window at the hospital.
Officers searched the area but were unable to locate Cates.
Cates was booked into the jail December 22 on a charge of felony battery causing injury.
Cates is 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.
Anyone with information on Cates' whereabouts is asked to call the Daviess County Sheriff's Department at 1-812-254-1060. Callers may remain anonymous.
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