Inmate who escaped corrections facility taken into custody

FORKS, Wash. — Police were looking for 37-year-old Aaron Richard Brown III.

Officials with the Department of Corrections said Brown was last seen at the corrections center’s dining hall at about 4:37 p.m. Thursday.

Multiple agencies searched for Brown.

Authorities said Brown was apprehended at 9:30 a.m. Friday about 10 miles north of the corrections center.

Brown is an inmate who was serving time for a drug conviction. He arrived at the corrections center Wednesday from the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton.

Staff members at the corrections center are investigating how Brown escaped.