UPDATE: Police Arrest Escaped Prisoner

UPDATE (10:29 p.m.)— arrested an escaped prisoner Monday night, more than three hours after he kicked through the rear window of a patrol car on York Road.

Vincent Michael Avila was arrested around 9:30 p.m. in a parking lot at the at the intersection of York Road and Seminary Avenue, across the street from a police staging area in the Galleria parking lot, according to police spokesman Officer Shawn Vinson.

A member of the police crime lab team saw Avila cross York Road towards the gas station, Vinson said.

Avila was transported to the Essex police precinct and is being held pending further charges, according to Vinson.

According to police, at around 6:15 p.m. Monday, Vincent Michael Avila removed his shackles and broke out through the back window of a patrol car and fled north on York Road.

For much of Monday evening, numerous patrol cars and the department's aviation and K-9 units were searching for Avila in the Lutherville area.

Avila, 25, was being taken in a marked police car from the Essex police precinct, where he was charged with a burglary, to the Baltimore County Detention Center, where he was already being held on other burglary charges. The car was headed southbound on York Road and about to turn onto West Road when Avila escaped.

A resident reported seeing Avila in an orange jail jumpsuit along Othoridge Road in Lutherville at about 6:50 p.m, Vinson said. It was unknown if Avila was still handcuffed at the time, Vinson said.

Twitter user Dan Morgan told Towson Patch the ramp to the Inner Loop was briefly shut due to police activity.

Avila, who is currently homeless, has several other recent arrests, including September charges of theft, issuing a false document, destruction of property and drug possession, according to court records.

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