Police search for escaped inmate

YAKIMA -- The inmate who escaped from the Pacific Avenue jail in Yakima was helping load a commissary van when he ran from a warehouse and scaled the outside fence to escape, jail officials said.

Yakima police and other agencies are still searching for the man, identified as 44-year-old Eddie Hall of Spokane. Assisted by two tracking dogs, officers scoured the Fair Avenue area north of the jail, but they did not find the escapee.

Hall was in custody on a state probation violation connected to a drug offense, according to a news release from the Yakima County Department of Corrections.

Hall is described as a white male, 6 feet 2 inches tall and 185 pounds. He has long brown hair, a mustache and goatee, and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a county-issued green sweatshirt with a gray sweatshirt beneath it.

He had been jailed since Oct. 20 and was due to be released Jan. 14. The escape was reported about 10:25 a.m.

Jail Sgt. Gina Danielson said Hall was part of a work crew assigned to duties inside the jail. He was loading the commissary van with five other workers, two clerical employees and a corrections officer. The van was headed to the main jail in downtown Yakima.

The county’s Pacific Avenue Corrections Center holds about 270 minimum and lower-medium inmates. The facility’s only other escape was reported in September 2007, when an inmate scaled the recreation yard fence.

Anyone with information about Hall’s whereabouts can call the Yakima Police Department at 575-6200.

-- Mark Morey

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