RCMP are searching for an escaped inmate from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary who was last seen in a prison truck in Yorkton yesterday at 4 p.m.
Police say 24-year-old Steven Briggs was spotted driving a blue 2015 four-door crew cab Dodge truck with a CSC logo in the Yorkton area.
During the 10 p.m. count at the penitentiary on New Year’s Eve, guards were short an inmate.
Briggs is described as about five-foot-nine-inches tall and 157 pounds with tattoos on both hands and his left forearm.
He is serving seven years and three months on assault and theft charges.
Yorkton RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance with any information in regards to his whereabouts and of the CSC truck.
