A man being taken to the Central Booking and Intake Center by police tried unsuccessfully to escape over a fence but was injured and caught Wednesday, a spokesman said.
The suspect escaped from an officer shortly after 10 a.m., fled down a service road toward Madison Street, scaling a fence where he injured himself and was apprehended by police, said Mark A. Vernarelli, a spokesman with the state department of public safety and correctional services.
Two correctional officers stopped him near the Madison Street sally port, he said. "Our officers reacted fast and were at the gate when the arrestee attempted to get out onto Madison Street," Vernarelli said in an email.
The suspect, who Vernarelli did not identify, was taken by ambulance to an area hospital.
Baltimore police did not identify the suspect Wednesday because he had not been formally charged, a department spokesman said.
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