Iowa authorities looking for escaped work-release inmate
MASON CITY (AP) — Officials in northern Iowa are looking for a work release prisoner who walked away from a residential facility without permission.
Prison officials say 29-year-old Matthew Ernest Andersen left the Beje Clark Residential Facility in Mason City on Wednesday night and did not return.
Andersen was serving a sentence for domestic abuse assault and other counts in Cerro Gordo County. He was admitted to the work release facility on Feb. 27.