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A 47-year-old Hawaii State Hospital patient has been charged with escape.
Allen Pitts was charged Wednesday afternoon with second-degree escape from the Kaneohe facility. He is being held in lieu of $11,000 bail.
Pitts is accused of breaking a window and fleeing on Saturday night. He was discovered missing during a bed check Sunday morning and was located by police in Waikiki on Monday night.
Pitts was committed to the hospital for two separate incidents. In 2013 he led police on a Kalakaua Avenue chase after stealing a dump truck and damaging police cars and parking meters before he struck a coconut tree. He jumped out of the truck, jumped into the ocean and was later arrested off Sans Souci Beach. He was found guilty in 2014 by reason of physical or mental disorder and committed on charges of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, reckless endangering and criminal property damage.
In July 2015 he was granted conditional release after he was reported to be doing well. But after he was out for a few weeks, the court issued a bench warrant for his arrest for alleged parole violations. Pitts turned himself in to police at the Waikiki substation, where he got into an altercation. He was indicted in April for allegedly 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.