Authorities Searching For Man Who Escaped From Northern Minnesota Corrections Facility

CBS Minnesota

May 19, 2022

Authorities in northern Minnesota are searching for a man who escaped from a corrections facility Wednesday morning.

The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office says 42-year-old Kris Richard Severin escaped around 9 a.m. from the Northeast Regional Corrections Center in Saginaw, which is 17 miles northwest of Duluth. He was being held at the facility for violating a restraining order.

Severin is described as a white man, standing 6-feet tall and weighing about 200 pounds. He has short brown hair, tattoos on both his arms, and he was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt, jeans and black shoes.

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