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TEMPE - A female inmate escaped police custody at a Tempe hospital before being caught about two hours later.

Police say Yvette Decordes, 20, reportedly slipped out of her handcuffs and her hospital gown and fled while at St. Luke’s Hospital.

Lt. Scott Smith, with the Tempe Police Department, tells 3TV, “At approximately 7:15 p.m. one of our officers called out that he had a prisoner that was fleeing from the Tempe St. Luke’s Hospital in the area of Mill and Apache.