Columbia-NY Presbyterian Hospital, at Broadway & 168th Street, was under lockdown yesterday when a suspect, arrested on stolen property and drug charges and being monitored at the hospital, tried to escape by climbing into the ceiling. The Port Authority police had brought Esteban Guitterez to the hospital on Saturday night and the Columbia Spectator reports that he "was in a bathroom in the Emergency Room area at 11:50 a.m. Sunday, when he reportedly decided to climb into the ceiling of the facility. He subsequently trapped himself inside a wall of the structure." After searching for over an hour, Guitterez, according to the PA police, "was eventually determined to be on the other side of a sheetrock wall, so they knocked down the wall and there he was.” The PA police were joined by the NYPD in the manhunt—one man whose pregnant wife as evacuated said, "[My wife] was very scared, obviously." The Daily News adds that the PA cops who were guarding him "are not expected to be disciplined"
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