An escaped prisoner is back in custody after a brief stint on the lam, police said Wednesday.
Christopher Miller, 23, was being treated Saturday at Bellevue Hospital for a stab wound he’d sustained as a victim of a crime, according to NYPD officials.
While he was there, officers pulled up his record and found an active warrant for a traffic infraction.
Police then placed Miller under arrest, according to the NYPD. But just before 4 a.m. Saturday, he left his hospital room and fled out a side door of the facility near East 28th Street and FDR drive.
He was re-arrested Monday afternoon, and charged with escape.
Miller’s lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment.
In August, 44-year-old Yenchun Chen made headlines when he escaped Department of Correction custody at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Gramercy Park. Chen had used a string of towels and bedsheets to rappel down from the hospital’s fifth-floor window, then called a cab and disappeared.
He was re-arrested in Queens about a month later.
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