Teen Found 2 Months After Lookout Mountain Youth Center Escape

GOLDEN, CO — A teenager who escaped from the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in June has been found and taken back into police custody. Quinn Scaggs, 17, used bed sheets to escape from the center, where he was last seen June 24.

SWAT and K-9 teams were called to an area near Palmer Park and Powers boulevards in Colorado Springs and Scaggs was taken back into custody.

Scaggs escaped by removing the window from his ground floor room and tying bed sheets together to escape over the perimeter fence, officials said. A K-9 team, drones and several agencies searched for him, but he wasn't found until this week.

He's considered a violent offender, according to the Colorado Department of Human Services. He was serving time for a string of burglaries in Colorado Springs, and attacked two other youth and a teacher at the facility, authorities said.

Other inmate escapes and violence have been reported at the youth center over the past year.

Inmates were involved in a riot earlier this year, injuring ten staff members, police said.

In April, the center was locked down and searched after death threats were made against five guards. Rumors that someone was "going to throw a gun over the fence" had been intercepted by staff, and a search unearthed a homemade shank, but no gun. Two inmates were transferred to another facility after the incident.

Also in April, A 15-year-old who was described as a "violent offender" escaped from the facility. He was caught soon after.

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