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Authorities are searching for an inmate described as “very dangerous” who officials say escaped from a prison in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets.<\/p>\n
WARREN, Pa. — <\/span>Authorities searched Saturday for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who escaped from a prison in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets, officials said. <\/p>\n Michael Burham was last seen wearing a blue denim prison coat, white and orange pants and orange shoes, Warren police said Friday.<\/p>\n Burham was being held on arson and burglary charges and was a suspect in a homicide investigation, police said. He was also associated with a carjacking and an earlier kidnapping of a local couple, police said. <\/p>\n “It is considered very dangerous and the public is asked to be vigilant and report anything out of the ordinary,” police said in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n Officials say he escaped by climbing into exercise equipment and using tied sheets. <\/p>\n Two decades ago, on the opposite side of the commonwealth, an inmate charged with murder after bodies were unearthed on his Wilkes-Barre property took advantage of a botched repair job and used a rope made from sheets to climb down from a seventh floor cell of the Luzerne County Jail. Officials said a window repaired after a 1989 escape attempt had two panes that were too small and secured only with caulk, so they broke easily.<\/p>\n Hugo Selenski spent three days on the run after the October 2003 escape before turning himself in. Another inmate was injured in a fall during the escape attempt and was recaptured. Selenski overcame two counts of murder in a 2006 trial, but was convicted of two murders in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n