POSTED: 12:37 p.m. HST, Sep 05, 2011
LAST UPDATED: 01:49 a.m. HST, Sep 06, 2011
A 15-year-old boy escaped from the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility in Kailua but was recaptured shortly afterwards.
Police said the teenager fled the detention center while emptying garbage in a trash bin outside the facility's secured fence at about 6:20 p.m. Sunday.
Officials said they recaptured him at about 7 p.m.