Captured state hospital inmate charged in escape
A 47-year-old man has been charged for his alleged escape from the Hawaii State Hospital in Kaneohe.
Allen Pitts was charged Wednesday afternoon for second-degree escape. He is being held in lieu of $11,000 bail.
On Saturday night, Pitts broke a window and fled from the facility. Staff discovered he was missing during a bed check the following morning.
Police located him in Waikiki Monday night.
Pitts was committed to the hospital for two separate incidents. In 2013, he led police on a chase on Kalakaua Avenue after he stole a dump truck, damaging police cars and parking meters before he struck a coconut tree.
He jumped out of the truck and jumped into the ocean. Police later arrested him off Sans Souci Beach.
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Pitts was charged with unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, reckless endangering and three counts of criminal property damage. In 2014, a judge found him guilty by reason of physical or mental disorder and committed him to the state hospital.
In July 2015, he was granted conditional release after he was reported to be doing well. But after being “out and about” for a few weeks, the court issued a bench warrant for his arrest. Pitts turned himself in to police at the Waikiki substation where he got into an altercation. He was indicted in April for assaulting a police officer and harassment.
Pitts was recommitted to the state hospital in August after a panel of doctors deemed him unfit to proceed to trial.
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State Hospital should have there own Clubhouse. Murders and rapists as its members.
If he is mentally “healthy” enough to be granted conditional release, he should be released into the custody of OCCC.