Escapee still loose

An escapee from the Charleston Correctional Center continued to elude law enforcement officials Monday.

Authorities from several agencies were assisting in the search for 23-year-old Allan S. Robinson, who escaped from the minimum-security prison at about 1 a.m. Saturday.

Jeffrey Merrill, director at the facility, said Monday that officials were interviewing Robinson’s friends and relatives, but as of Monday afternoon he had not been found.

As a guard completed the half-hour check of the first floor and moved on to the second floor of the dormitory, Robinson apparently walked from his first-floor cell and out the door, Merrill said.

Robinson, of East Eddington, was part way through a three-year sentence for unlawful sexual contact. He began his term Dec. 5, 1990, at the Maine Correctional Facility in South Windham, but was transferred to Charleston last Thursday after officials there granted his request to be classified a minimum-security prisoner.

Merrill said authorities were looking into a report of a stolen car in Bradley, but said he was unsure if the theft was connected to Robinson’s escape.