Man tries to escape hospital6/19/2023 Police said the absence was discovered at 7.30pm and officers were alerted just after 7.45pm. ![]() The men were last seen at 6pm on Wednesday during dinner and found missing 45 minutes later during a routine patient check, said Carla Reyes, assistant director of the department of social and health services’ behavioral health administration, which oversees mental health services in the state. Someone recognized Adams and officers picked him up without incident about 20 minutes away from the hospital in a town just south of Seattle-Tacoma international airport, Lakewood police lieutenant Chris Lawler said. Garver’s lawyer, Jon Scott, said he could not speak about the escape but said he hopes Garver “is found quickly and safely”.Īdams also got on a bus and asked the driver how to get to the airport. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently extended the hospital’s deadline for fixing the problems from 1 April to 3 May.Ī federal judge also has said the hospital has failed to provide timely competency services to mentally ill people charged with crimes.Ī bus driver picked up a man he believed was Garver around 6 pm on Wednesday, said police, who urged anyone who spots him to stay away and contact authorities. US regulators have repeatedly cited the facility over safety concerns and threatened to cut millions in federal funding. The escape is the latest in a litany of problems at the 800-bed hospital south of Tacoma, where violent assaults on staff and patients have occurred. Garver was moved to a lower-security unit of the state’s largest psychiatric hospital after a judge said mental health treatment to prepare him to face criminal charges was not working. Garver was charged in 2013 with tying a 20-year-old woman to her bed with electrical cords, stabbing her 24 times in the chest and slashing her throat, Snohomish County assistant prosecutor Craig Matheson said. There was no immediate way to reconcile the different timelines. ![]() Western State hospital says the men were discovered missing 45 minutes after they were last seen, but police said it took an hour and a half.
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