The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office is searching for an inmate that escaped Saturday, according to KALB TV. 

RPSO said around 1:30 p.m. , corrections officers noticed that 40 year old Demoine Fitzgerald Ashley, who was assigned to laundry detail, ran off from DC 1 in Downtown Alexandria.

According to KALB, Ashley was delivering laundry when he slipped out the front door, unnoticed.

He ran down the stairs and got away before deputies could apprehend him.

The report states Ashley has several prior convictions including narcotics violations and flight from an officer. He is currently being held on aggravated kidnapping, domestic abuse strangulation, aggravated battery, illegal use of a weapon and convicted felon in possession of a firearm from an arrest in March.

Correction Security Investigators have responded to conduct their investigation and investigators are considering Ashley as dangerous.

Metro Division deputies are also assisting in the search as well as other local law enforcement agencies.

If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of Ashley they are asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at 318-473-6700, Crime Stoppers at 318-443-7867 or your local law enforcement agency.