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Posted at: 11/06/2009 10:42 AM Teenage prisoner caught after escaping custody in Watervliet
Investigators say he was hiding in a drain pipe, barely big enough for an adult to fit inside. They say he got pretty beat up crawling in there and is back at the jail now undergoing a medical evaluation. At least sixty police officers from half a dozen agencies spent three hours searching for 18 year old Jason Gibson. Police say Gibson was at Watervliet City Court Friday morning, facing felony criminal mischief charges. He's accused of damaging dozens of cars. While in court, the officers took off Gibson's handcuffs and police say the 18 year old bolted out the front door and ran across 787. Three hours later, police found him hiding in a culvert around 13th Street in Watervliet, about two blocks away from the police department. "It was barely big enough for him I don't think anyone bigger would have fit into it," says Watervliet Police Chief, Ron Boisvert. Police say Gibson took off his yellow prison jump suit when he escaped and was just wearing his boxers when he was found. "He's pretty scraped up, his knees are scraped up," adds the Chief. Gibson's mother, Misty Deperna says her son ran off because he was scared to death of going back to jail. "He was terrified to go to jail. Last time he went to jail he was on suicide watch," says Gibson's mother, Misty Deperna. She says her son was about to start school at Hudson Valley Community College until the felony criminal mischief charge and now she says he made it worse for himself adding a felony escape charge to his record. "Unfortunately everyone has to pay for what they do when he gets out he'll hopefully be more productive of a person," adds Diperna. The Watervliet Police Chief says this is not one of the finer days for his department but, he says, it's procedure at Watervliet City Court to take off a prisoner's handcuffs when they're in front of a judge and, he says, even after what happened today, they don't plan on changing that procedure.
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WATERVLIET -- Police say the prisoner who escaped from custody Friday morning is back behind bars.
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