OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington Corrections Department spokesman says a man who left Western State Hospital in Lakewood without permission has been transferred to the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton.
Spokesman Chad Lewis says Jonathan Wilson was being treated at the mental hospital after being civilly committed by a Snohomish County Superior Court judge. The 26-year-old man was captured March 5 in Tacoma, a day after he walked away from the hospital.
Wilson was released Tuesday from Tacoma General Hospital, where he received medical treatment. Lewis says Corrections then transferred him to the Shelton prison. Corrections will schedule a hearing to determine if Wilson violated the terms of his community supervision by leaving Western State.
Wilson previously had been jailed in Snohomish County in 2008 in an arson case.
