Inmate escapes from Mat-Su minimum-security prison

WASILLA — An inmate walked away from a Mat-Su minimum-security prison early Friday morning.

Alaska Department of Corrections Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm officials notified the Alaska State Troopers just after 3 a.m. Friday, reporting the escape, according to an online dispatch published by AST.

DOC officials said Brian Church, 59, walked away from the facility sometime between 10 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday. Church, last seen wearing jeans and a shirt, is 6-foot-1 and about 205 pounds, according to the release. Church has brown and partially grey hair and brown eyes.

An arrest warrant for escape in the second degree is pending. AST asks the public to report any suspicious persons or circumstances in the Point Mackenzie and Knik-Goose Bay roads areas.

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