It didn’t take LaPorte City Police very long to locate and detain a county jail inmate who escaped from a top floor window.

It happened late Tuesday night, May 10. Deputies searched outside the jail building and found several pieces of bedsheets tied together in the form of a rope coming down from a top floor window.

Around that same time, LaPorte City Police were called about a man, wandering around naked, in the 600 block of Lincolnway.

That’s where they found the escaped inmate, Desmond Robinson, 43.

He’s been locked up since early April for a felony burglary that happened back in 2017.

Robinson was found suffering injuries consistent with a fall.

Detectives with the Criminal Investigations Division are performing an investigation into the escape.