SIOUX CITY, IA -
40 year old Cletus Antonio Armell was placed on work release through the Residential Treatment Facility here in Sioux City.
He's now been on the run for more than 36 hours, and police need your help finding him.
"The consequences aren't worth the escape time," Darloe Janssen, the Residential Supervisor at the Residential Treatment Facility.
Armell will face additional jail time if caught, and Janssen says that's likely.
"Most all of them get found eventually," he said.
The Residential Treatment Facility in Sioux City offers inmates the opportunity to ease back into society after being in jail. Janssen says they must follow a list of responsibilities.
"It's a program where the inmate has to live here, pay rent, they have to get a full time job, do treatment, and be accountable all the time," he said.
If all goes well, they are allowed to leave the facility a few times a day for food and other necessities. Armell signed out of the facility to see a doctor, and then came back. But around 4 a.m. Sunday morning, he signed out again.
He was given one hour to come to the drive up pharmacy window at Walgreen's on Gordon Drive to pick up a prescription. But employees say he never showed up.
"He left here, and disappeared," said Janssen.
Armell is described as an American Indian or Alaska native with black hair and brown eyes. He's 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds. Armell is half way through a 15 year sentence for 2nd degree robbery and going armed with intent.
Please call the Sioux City Police Department or the Woodbury County Sheriff's Office if you have any information on Armell's whereabouts.
Sioux City Police Department:(712) 279-6365
Woodbury County Sheriff's Office: (712) 279-6010
