Updated 7:40 a.m., Sunday, May 18
Police have apprehended an Arverne man who escaped from a Far Rockaway hospital after he was charged with petit larceny and resisting arrest.
George Jordan, 36, was arrested at about 5:40 p.m. Friday and was being treated at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital for a prior condition, officials said, but was able to free himself from handcuffs at about 11 p.m. and flee from the institution.
Cops caught Jordan around 9:30 p.m. Saturday inside a home across the street from the hospital.
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