Man in brown jacket escapes psychiatric ward near Stanaford Rd, Beckley WV
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Missing PersonAccording to the dispatch call, a man in his 30s wearing a brown jacket escaped from the psychiatric ward at the hospital near Stanaford Road. Officers are searching the nearby area including near Bar H to locate him.
Audio|Heard on: Raleigh County Public Safety
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Transcript:
00:00
I'm out here at ARH, apparently somebody that was waiting to go into the psych ward out of the ER bolted.
00:06
Unless you got any Beckley use coming out here, I'm just kind of driving around the area trying to look for this male.
00:11
It's going to have a brown jacket on.
00:13
Mid-30s white male around here.
00:20
(name withheld) City, though.
00:26
21 control.
00:32
Okay, go ahead.
00:36
This director trailer is going to have some transmission issues.
00:39
Can you go ahead and notify the lands for a big record for him?
00:45
Okay.
00:50
29's in the plaza area, what you need?
00:57
I've got county unit called in and stated that.
01:00
He's driving around attempting to locate a male subject in his 30s wearing a brown jacket.
01:05
Subject had escaped from the hospital and that he's supposed to be admitted into the flight unit.
01:14
And he just shot out the doors.
01:19
I think his last name's (name withheld) for having to grab around to bypass it before.
01:25
Yeah.
01:31
Central. There's six.
01:33
Go ahead.
01:35
(name withheld), needs, going to be your (name withheld).
01:38
Hmm.
01:46
Ten four, thank you.
01:48
I'll be sitting behind him because he's halfway in the lane right here.
01:52
Okay. Okay.
01:59
It was.
02:05
Go ahead. Do you know if he was there voluntarily or involuntarily?
02:14
I believe it was involuntary.
02:21
Records. Can you see you even look at a picture that gentleman sent to me?
02:27
We have him in the system of there's no photo.
02:30
He's just an evidence owner from a debit court in 2019.
02:40
The department, we let them know.
02:44
Go.
02:57
129, I'll be in the area of the hospital.
03:00
Copy.
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Location mentioned:
Stanaford Rd, Beckley, WV 25801
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