HONOLULU – U.S. Marshals say they've brought a man who escaped from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital back to the islands from California.
Randall Saito faces escape charges stemming from his unauthorized departure from the Hawaii State Hospital in November.
The agency said in a statement Wednesday that Saito returned to an undisclosed location on Oahu at 2:40 p.m. Agents plan to turn him over to investigators from the state attorney general's office.
Saito walked out of the suburban Honolulu hospital and took a taxi to the airport, where he caught a charter plane to Maui. From there, he caught another flight to San Jose. Police arrested him in Stockton, California three days later.
Saito was acquitted of murder by reason of insanity in the 1979 killing of Sandra Yamashiro.