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Police in New York City are searching for a prisoner who escaped from a hospital where he was receiving medical treatment.
The 44-year-old suspect escaped by tying bedsheets together and climbing down from a fifth-story window to a rooftop below, then made his way to the street before fleeing in a taxi.
The man had been taken into custody on July 31st on drug possession charges and had been in the hospital since August 4th.
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