Vancouver police say a prisoner was able to escape from Vancouver General Hospital earlier this week.
Andrew Barry Dollman, 50, bolted from VGH on Tuesday morning, and is accused of assaulting a corrections officer as he did so.
Vancouver police say he left around 4:45 a.m., and was found by officers near West 16th Avenue and Oak Street within an hour.
Const. Jason Doucette commented on a possible use of a weapon: “You can pick anything up and use it as a weapon and it’s the intent of what you pick up and what you do with it that makes it a weapon.”
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Last weekend, Dollman was arrested and charged after allegedly stealing a truck and crashing it on Main Street near Prior Street.
The crash sent four people to hospital.
BC Corrections says the escape is under investigation.