PITTSBURGH — A man charged in a scamming scheme is now wanted for escaping a corrections facility.
The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office said Zhudi Chen, 40, was transferred from the Allegheny County Jail to alternative housing on Oct. 22. From there, he was moved to a Renewal community-based corrections facility on the Boulevard of the Allies in Downtown Pittsburgh on Nov. 8.
Police said Chen used a fourth-floor fire escape to get out of the facility and never came back.
Chen was arrested by FBI agents in October on charges of defrauding a 76-year-old man out of $130,000 in Springdale Township.
He now faces a new escape charge and remains at large at this time.
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