Juvenile offender escapes from custody at BWI airport

Published June 20, 2011 4:00am ET



A juvenile offender escaped from the custody of D.C. officials at the Baltimore airport, and officials are still looking for the youth, District officials said.

Department of Youth and Rehabilitative Services officials said the 18-year-old got away from an agency worker around 4:30 p.m. Sunday shortly after his plane landed at the Baltimore Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport. The youth was being transported from a psychiatric treatment facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, for a hearing back in the District, officials said.

The incident is at least the sixth escape from a DYRS facility or custody since April.