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Marshals reviewing procedures after inmate escapes hospital

(AP) — Federal marshals are reviewing their security procedures after an inmate receiving treatment at a northern Virginia hospital overpowered a private guard, took her gun and set off a frenzied nine-hour manhunt. [...] the Marshals Service contracts called for two private guards from Allied Protection Services, a Los Angeles-based company, to guard him. Police searched several residential neighborhoods with tactical officers armed with assault rifles, startling residents. In one neighborhood, Spence Limbocker said he heard the helicopter, went outside and saw a massive police presence, including officers searching homes and nearby woods. Assaye had been booked into the Alexandria jail, which typically holds federal inmates charged in northern Virginia, on the federal charges March 21, Alexandria Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Amy Bertsch said in a statement. Assaye made an initial appearance Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Alexandria on the escape charge, dressed in a white vinyl jumpsuit, shackled at the wrists and ankles and guarded by four marshals.

 

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