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Stay Alert! Police Warn Of Violent Inmate Who Escaped Work Crew In Northern BC

Darpan News Desk Darpan, 14 Nov, 2014 09:25 PM

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A violent inmate with a history of property and weapons offences has escaped from a work crew in Prince George, B.C.

RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass says police are using an aircraft to search for 38-year-old Randy Henricks.

The Saskatchewan man was wearing a yellow slicker coat, a white thermal undershirt and orange pants when he ran from his work crew just before noon on Friday.

Henricks has tattoos of a swastika and an iron cross on his right forearm.

Douglass says police do not believe the man has any family in the northern B.C. city.

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