ELKINS — A Randolph County man has picked up an additional felony charge after allegedly fleeing from police while in custody Thursday afternoon.

Justin Wayne Wamsley, 39, was in custody at the Randolph County Magistrate Office for arraignment on a destruction of property charge Thursday when he escaped the facility in hand restraints, officials said.

Magistrate Office video surveillance footage shows that after fleeing the building, Wamsley ran down the alley behind the magistrate office toward the Vintage Restaurant. At approximately 1 p.m., video cameras at the Econo Lodge on U.S. Route 33 showed Wamsley walking through the hotel’s parking lot headed toward the Bowden area, officials said.

Police continued to search the area for the next several hours before receiving a call that Wamsley might have been spotted in the Dailey area of Randolph County. State Police arrived at that location and were attempting to talk to an auto sales owner in the area. After having no luck contacting the business owner, police noticed a vehicle pulling out nearby, officials said. Officers proceeded to stop the vehicle and inside found Wamsley, who apparently had no relationship to the owner of the automobile, in the passenger seat.

Wamsley, who had managed to get out of the hand restraints by the time of his capture, was taken to the Tygarts Valley Regional Jail. He was charged with a felony county of persons in custody for fleeing the magistrate office. Wamsley is being held on two $15,000 cash bonds set by Magistrate Mike Dyer.

The Elkins Police Department, West Virginia State Police, and Randolph County Sheriff’s Department all took part in the search.

Wamsley’s original charge of destruction of property stemmed from an incident that took place at Davis Medical Center Thursday, when police were called to the facility in reference to an irate patient breaking a medical device.

Once on scene, Patrolman R.A. Summerfield of the Elkins Police Department made contact with Wamsley, who was located in the alleyway between Gorman and Harrison Avenue, the criminal complaint states.

While speaking with Wamsley, DMC security officers were able to positively identify him as the suspect involved in breaking a medical device, according to the complaint. Wamsley was taken back into the hospital, where medical staff were also able to identify him.

DMC staff found a chair turned over and a medical device broken in a room Wamsley had been in, the complaint states. Medical staff said that while Wamsley was in the room they could hear banging noises coming from inside.