Inmate escapes from Ohio correctional facility

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Authorities today are searching for a man who escaped from a low-level corrections facility near Toledo by climbing over a fence.

Jhon Rosado, 24, of Jacksonville, Fla., escaped from NorthWest Community Corrections Center in Bowling Green about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Rosado was sent there Monday by a Wood County judge to serve the first six months of a three-year community control sentence after pleading guilty to felony domestic violence in July.

Inmates at the independently operated facility receive counseling to address substance abuse and manage their anger, work on life skills and seek the equivalent of a high-school diploma if they don’t have one, a county prosecutor said.

The escape comes less than a week after Chardon High School shooter T.J. Lane and two other inmates briefly escaped from a state prison in Lima, about 80 miles south of Toledo. The trio scaled a fence in the recreation yard and climbed onto the roof of an entryway.

The search for Rosado is being conducted by Bowling Green police, the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

Rosado was wearing a blue jump suit with an orange sweatshirt when he escaped.