UPDATE: Saturday, 5 p.m

Waiawa Correctional Facility officers apprehended escaped inmate Irvin T. Agres just before noon today off Waiawa Prison Road, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

State Sheriffs booked Agres, 41, for escape and will take him to the Halawa Correctional Facility, officials said.

Agres, a minimum-custody inmate serving time for a parole violation relating to a first-degree robbery conviction, was missing from a headcount at about 8:45 a.m. Friday.

The circumstances of how Agres escaped from the facility are under investigation, officials said.

Waiawa corrections officers had been searching the area for Agres since Friday morning until they found him today, they said.

WCF Warden Sean Ornellas commended his staff for their efforts. “I’m proud of their diligent work,” Warden Ornellas said in a news relese.

Agres faces a first-degree escape charge.

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Hawaii law enforcement authorities are searching for a 41-year-old inmate who did not show up for a head count at Waiawa Correctional Facility Friday morning.

Irvin T. Agres was missing from the 8:45 a.m. head count, prompting staff to call state Sheriffs and the Honolulu Police Department.

He is 5-feet, 5-inches and about 155 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair, according to the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Officials said said Agres is a minimum custody inmate serving time for a parole violation relating to a first-degree robbery conviction — and that he now faces an additional escape charge.

Waiawa Correctional Facility is a minimum security, work-camp style facility with dorms for male inmates.

Department officials said the circumstances of how Agres escaped from the facility are still under investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or state Sheriffs at 808-586-1352.