State hospital worker arrested in connection with sex offender escape
8:18 a.m. Friday, August 22, 2008
An employee at the Larned State Hospital is behind bars on charges related to the escape of a convicted sex offender from the facility's sexual predator treatment program.
Perry Lee Isley is 5'7" and weighs 168 pounds.
Pawnee County authorities say Colean McKoy is likely to face charges of aiding a person required to register as a sex offender and conspiracy to commit aggravated escape.
Officials think Isley escaped from the hospital by hiding in a laundry bin that was put outside of a secure building but inside security fencing, said Michelle Ponce, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. said. The laundry was placed for overnight pickup. Isley obtained bolt cutters, or something similar, to cut through two security fences.
Assistant county attorney Douglas McNett said Isley was captured without incident the next day in Colorado. McNett said Isley's first court appearance is today.
Isley was sent to Larned in March 2006 after serving 11 years in prison for two convictions in Shawnee County for aggravated indecent liberties with a child younger than 14.
Officials at the hospital are working to increase efforts to prevent another such escape.
''We're looking at the possibility of the need to increase some of that training, or re-emphasize that," Ponce said. "That's one step that we're taking right away."
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