Updated at 1:45 p.m., Wednesday, May 16, 2007
O'ahu corrections officers pick up escapee
Advertiser Staff
An inmate who escaped from the O'ahu Community Correctional Center Sunday was captured by adult corrections officers at 10:30 this morning, according to the state Department of Public Safety.Cory Wong-Yuen, 30, was captured at a business on Pu'uhale Road where he had worked. OCCC was alerted at 10:15 a.m. that Wong-Yuen would be coming by the company to pick up his personal belongings. The adult corrections officers went to the business and were waiting when Wong-Yuen arrived.
Wong-Yuen failed to return to Laumaka Work Furlough Center at 4 p.m. Sunday. He was authorized to leave the facility from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for work furlough. OCCC waited 30 minutes, which is standard procedure, then alerted the Sheriff Division and HPD.
Wong-Yuen is serving time for promoting dangerous drugs in the third-degree and now faces a second-degree escape charge.
