A 33-year-old inmate was caught trying to escape from Oahu Community Correctional Center on Tuesday.

A prison official said Anthony Fontana, who is serving time for unauthorized entry into a vehicle, was preparing to leave the prison at 1 p.m. on a work furlough pass.

As he was about to leave, corrections officers called him back and that is when he decided to flee.

Correctional officers chased after Fontana and captured him across the street from the facility, near the Tesoro Gas Express on Kamehameha Highway, at 1:05 p.m.

He was arrested on suspicion of second-degree escape and returned to the prison about 6 p.m.

Man arrested after he shows stolen item

While denying that he robbed a woman of her cellphone, Ronson Jacob pulled the case belonging to the stolen item from his front pocket — an action that led to his arrest earlier this month near Mayor Wright Homes, police said.

Jacob, 18, of Kalihi-Palama, remains in custody at Oahu Community Correctional Center, unable to post $15,000 bail.

A police affidavit said Jacob walked up to a woman in a crosswalk at King and Liliha streets and pressed a sharp object into her back, then demanded the smartphone she was holding.

The woman said she believed the pointed object was a knife and gave Jacob her phone.

Less than half an hour later, the woman was at the guard shack at Mayor Wright Homes with her cousin awaiting police and saw Jacob coming out of the housing complex.

The woman’s cousin confronted Jacob, who denied taking the phone, but then he reached into his shorts and pulled out the woman’s white phone case, the affidavit said.

Police arrived, searched Jacob and found the woman’s phone in his front pocket, according to the affidavit.

He was arrested at the scene about 10 p.m. Nov. 1 and indicted Nov. 5 on a charge of second-degree robbery.