A minimum correctional facility inmate escaped today from the facility in Littlerock Thurston County while working outside of the facility’s secure perimeter, at approximately 2:53 p.m. on Monday, October 8, 2018.  The Attempt to locate put out Monday evening said that he has ties to the Hoquiam area in Grays Harbor and has made threats or suicide by cop. 

The Mason County Sheriffs Office put out a Facebook Post Sunday morning at 10:25 AM that a subject in their custody was out on Furlough for an inpatient treatment, and had been so since August 27th.  They do not specify what the treatment was for, but that as of this morning he was not at the treatment center and the search is on. 

If spotted do not approach, call 911

The Hoquiam Police Department assisted the US Parks Department in serving a search warrant on a residence in Hoquiam on Tuesday.  The known occupants of the residence were believed to have stolen credit cards and other items from campers that had been up at the Olympic National Forest. 

Here is more on this story from Hoquiam Police Chief Jeff Myers;

Traffic was backed up both westbound and at times eastbound State Route 12 on Monday afternoon after an 87-year-old Montesano woman was killed in a traffic accident by Aberdeen Lake Road West near Aberdeen.