A 19-year-old with both juvenile and adult convictions escaped Sunday night from Green Hill School in Chehalis.
According to the Chehalis Police Department, Dominic A. Adams, 19, had not been apprehended as of this morning.
Adams allegedly ran from school staff during a maintenance detail Sunday evening on the Green Hill School campus. The facility reported the escape at about 9 p.m. School staff determined he probably got out through a hole cut in the facility’s fence.
A staff member reported seeing a red car outside the fence and hearing the driver honk the horn at around the time Adams escaped. The car may be associated with the incident, according to the Chehalis Police Department.
Green Hill Superintendent Marybeth Queral did not return multiple requests for comment. Queral also did not release a description of Adams to the public.
Green Hill School, managed by the state Department of Social and Health Services’ Juvenile Justice and Rehabilitation Administration, is a medium- to maximum-security facility that provides educational and vocational training to older, male offenders, according to DSHS.
Adams was first sentenced to Green Hill School as a juvenile in 2011 for burglary, theft and assault convictions, said DSHS spokesman Chris Wright.
Adams was later transferred to the Parke Creek Community facility in Ellensburg, and came back to Green Hill in October 2013, Wright said.
Adams was convicted of assault in October 2014 while in custody and was sentenced to 105 months in an adult prison facility. He is scheduled to be transferred to prison in March 2016, after his juvenile sentence is complete.
An inmate at Green Hill last escaped custody in July 2014 while attending a graduation ceremony at South Seattle Community College. Terrell T. Johnson was arrested later that month and sentenced to an additional year and a day at Green Hill. The last escape from the Green Hill facility itself occurred in 2010, Wright said.
