A Lewes man who escaped from Delaware Department of Corrections custody Friday evening while being treated at Beebe Hospital is being hunted by the DOC, the state police and Lewes police.
Gail Stallings Minor of the DOC said Calvin B. Harmon escaped from correction personnel at about 7:45 p.m. Friday after he had been treated in the emergency room of Beebe Hospital for a full day.
Neither police nor corrections official would say for what condition Harmon was being treated.
But Stallings Minor said that Harmon was being admitted to the hospital Friday evening, and was changing from his street clothes to hospital garb, when he escaped.
She did not say how he escaped.
Harmon had been arrested Thursday by state police on burglary, criminal solicitation, theft, conspiracy and criminal mischief charges.
After Harmon was arraigned that evening and could not make the $34,000 bail, state police took him to Beebe Hospital because of an unknown “medical condition,” said Sgt. Joshua Bushweller of the state police.
Stallings Minor said she didn’t know why Harmon was taken to the hospital, but the department of corrections took custody of him from the state police Friday morning.
Harmon was described by police as a 44, 5-feet-5-inches tall, 140 pounds with black hair and brown eyes, pierced ears, facial scars and tattoos on his left arm.
DOC and police officials ask anyone with information on Harmon's whereabouts to call the police.
