Authorities are searching for a 25-year-old inmate who escaped from the Monroe Correctional Complex late Thursday night, with officials acknowledging that more than four hours passed before prison staff realized he was gone.
According to the Washington State Department of Corrections, Samuel Evans Kimble escaped from the prison’s minimum security unit at approximately 10:53 p.m. Thursday. Staff did not discover he was missing until a formal inmate count at 3:30 a.m. Friday morning, leaving a window of nearly five hours during which his whereabouts were unknown and no search had been initiated.
