WATERBURY -- Vermont State Police say they are looking for a 24-year-old man who escaped this morning from the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury.
Anthony Gotavaskas, a native of Montpelier and a recent inmate at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield, escaped at about 10 a.m., police said. He reportedly climbed over a fence, crossed the Winooski River and was last seen running into the woods next to River Road in Duxbury.
The clothes Gotavaskas was last seen wearing were recovered in the woods, so it is possible that is now without clothes, police said.
Anyone with information about Gotavaskas' whereabouts should call the Vermont State Police in Middlesex at 229-9191.
