Authorities in Eastern Kentucky are searching for an inmate who escaped a deputy jailer at a hospital on Saturday.
The Middlesboro Daily News reports that around noon on Saturday, inmate Joe Johnson broke a florescent bulb over a sink at Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital. Johnson then pointed the shattered remains at the jailer, using it as a weapon and threatening the jailer’s life.
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The inmate was able to run out of the hospital after the jailer paused to call for backup.
The paper reports that Johnson was last seen wearing a white shirt and white hospital pants with blue dots, along with a set of steel leg restraints.
He’s described as standing 6’8″, weighing 180 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.
Johnson was originally in jail for charges relating to the use of a stolen credit card.
