A teenage detainee of a youth treatment facility managed to avoid capture — but not for long — after escaping from authorities in Butler.

The boy's time on the lam ended Thursday when Butler police say they nabbed him hiding in the basement of a home in the city's Island neighborhood.

The boy, who police did not identify, was in the custody of George Junior Republic staff about 12:35 p.m. when he got away in the area of the Marathon gas station on South Main Street, authorities said.

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