Prisoner captured one month after using bed sheets to rappel out of NYC hospital

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Prisoner captured one month after using bed sheets to rappel out of NYC hospital
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The prisoner, identified as Yenchun Chen, was in Department of Corrections custody at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Gramercy when he escaped out a fifth-floor window and made his way down to the street, where he hailed a cab.

A prisoner who used a rope made of bedsheets to escape from the fifth floor of a New York City hospital has been rearrested after a month on the run

Authorities say he used a rope made of sheets to escape from a fifth-floor window. He rappelled to a rooftop below and from there made it to the street, where he got into a taxiescape from the fifth floor of a New York City hospitalThe 44-year-old man was apprehended Tuesday in Queens after escaping from Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital in Manhattan on Aug. 9, a police spokesperson said.

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