Hospital escapee sentenced to 5 years

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The man who escaped from Howard County General Hospital was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for violation of probation on an earlier drug conviction.

Howard County Circuit Court Judge Lenore Gelfman sentenced Joaquin Leycock, 29, of Columbia, despite his statements that he was trying to “wean himself off drugs.”

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