Deputies with the Dallas County Sheriff's Department said they located an inmate Thursday morning who escaped custody while at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Officials with the Sheriff's department said 47-year-old Anna Marie Cardella was remotely booked into the county jail Oct. 22 on charges of driving with a suspended license, possession of a controlled substance and having no driver's license. Surveillance video captured her walking out of the hospital in plain clothes at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
A witness told Sheriff's deputies that Cardella was at the Shady Oaks Motel in the 1500 block of Fort Worth Avenue. Authorities took her into custody without incident at 6:07 a.m. Thursday.
The sheriff's office is now trying to figure out how she escaped.
“It’s always a concern and we are definitely going to look into the matter and to make sure there wasn’t any violation of the policy or rules that was committed,” Dallas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Raul Reyna said. “We are thoroughly investing this to see who was at fault and if it was our officer, then appropriate action will be taken.”
Remote book-ins are done from the hospital. An officer assigned to guard Cardella was not in her hospital room due to the inmate being in airborne isolation.
Michael Malaise, senior vice president of communications and external relations for the hospital, said the entrance to an airborne isolation room can be monitored by a deputy from the hallway and that deputies are to maintain line-of-sight on the rooms containing their prisoners.
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Malaise added that "airborne isolation rooms are used for patients with any number of conditions or simply for testing. We are not at liberty to discuss a patient’s medical condition."
NBC 5's Johnny Archer contributed to this report.
