Patient found after escaping from Co. Mental Health Complex

MILWAUKEE (WITI) — 53-year-old Carl Krueger, the man who escaped from the Mental Health Complex in Milwaukee Thursday, September 12th, has been safely located and returned to Behavioral Health Division.

Krueger, a patient at the complex, escaped from a locked Behavioral Health Division facility  around 11:40 a.m. on Thursday. Krueger also escaped in March, 2012 and was apprehended in a south side county park.

The Sheriff’s Office says Krueger has a criminal history, with arrests for attempted arson in 1985, exposing genitals to a child, lewd and lascivious behavior in Bayside in 1996, disorderly conduct in 1996 and fleeing and obstructing an officer in 2001.

Krueger has been at BHD since 2002.

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