UPDATE: Escaped Saskatchewan Penitentiary inmate caught
Police searching for an inmate who went missing from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, Sask. on New Year’s Eve said he may be in the Yorkton area.
Staff at the prison discovered Steven Briggs, 24, was missing from the facility’s minimum-security unit at 10 p.m. on Monday.
Briggs is described as five feet nine inches tall and weighs 157 pounds. He has green eyes and brown hair as well as tattoos on both hands and one forearm.
Yorkton RCMP said Briggs was seen driving a Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) four-door 2015 Dodge truck in the Yorkton area in the afternoon of Jan. 1.
Briggs is currently serving a sentence of seven years and three months for assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, robbery, motor vehicle theft and possession of property obtained by crime.
Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to contact police.
The Correctional Service of Canada is currently investigating.