CORRECTION: The Pike County Sheriff’s Office notes that Price was not in the custody of a Pike County deputy when he escaped, as had been noted in the police report and reported earlier by Mountain Top News. The sheriff’s office says the deputy had delivered Price to the hospital, but he had been taken into triage by hospital staff, when he got away.

PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Pike County man was recaptured last week, after police say he escaped from a hospital while in custody.

Police were called to Highlands ARH just before 3 a.m. Thursday, over a report that Andrew Price, 20, of Feds Creek, had escaped while at the hospital. However, a search of the immediate area failed to locate him.

Then, just before 8 a.m., dispatch received a call reporting a suspicious person outside a home on Route 3, looking around a vehicle. When police got there, they found Price, although he initially gave a different name.

The police report says that as an officer approached to place him under arrest, he tried to pull away, but he was quickly apprehended. Police then discovered that he had allegedly broken into the house to steal a change of clothes and get rid of his hospital gown.

Price now faces charges of first-degree escape, second-degree burglary, resisting arrest and giving an officer false identifying information.