Inmate Escapes Without Pants

A 25-year-old man who ran nearly naked from prison yesterday now faces five Christmases behind bars instead of just one.Michael Ventura left his boxer shorts and brown prison pants hanging from a sharp razor-wire fence, and his rubber slippers below, after escaping from the Oahu Community Correctional Center shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday.

Ventura, who might be injured after cutting himself on the 10-foot fence, had a little more than a month left of a 90-day sentence for third-degree assault.

Now he faces charges of third-degree escape, a felony that carries a five-year sentence.
Ventura, who had been detained for about a week, had only a white T-shirt on when he made a run for it.

“Somebody called and said he was running with a bag on his head,” said Michael Gaede, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety.

Officials were also told that Ventura wrapped a piece of cardboard around his waist.
Public safety officials found other pieces of cardboard and plastic bags with blood spots near the corrections center.
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