NEW YORK (AP) - New York City police are searching for a prisoner who escaped from a health facility in the West Village.
Police say it happened at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday while the prisoner was in police custody at Lenox Hill Healthplex at Seventh Avenue and West 12th Street.
Police identified the prisoner, who was in custody for petit larceny, as 31-year-old Daniel Ortiz.
He has brown eyes and brown curly hair. He was wearing blue jeans and a dark colored pea coat and had leg shackles attached to one leg. He also walks with a limp.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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