Police identify wrong man as escaped suspect

By NBCPhiladelphia.com and msnbc.com staff

PHILADELPHIA ? Police are looking for a suspect who escaped from custody at a hospital, but not the guy they named as a prisoner on the loose.

It turns out, police said, that the department put out the wrong name and photo of a tattooed man they say had escaped after his arrest for alleged drug dealing.

"The male identified . . . is not wanted. The correct identity of the escaped prisoner is not available at this time,? police said, NBCPhiladelphia.com reported.

The man police identified as their escaped suspect is 22-year-old Randall Stiles of West Philadelphia. But the suspect wasn?t Randall Stiles.

Read the original report on the wrong escapee on NBCPhiladelphia.com

A woman in Stiles? neighborhood showed him a police sign with his photo on it and Stiles went to the 18th Police District on Friday to tell authorities that he wasn?t the guy, the Philadelphia Daily News reported.

"I told them, 'That's not me,' " he told the Philadelphia Daily News.

Police said the man arrested on Thursday had identified himself to police as Randall Stiles, and had given them Stiles' address and date of birth. They had not yet fingerprinted or photographed him, however, and then released news?that?Stiles had escaped their grasp.

Police also said the escapee had an "H" tattoo on his forehead, though, which Stiles doesn?t.

As of Monday, police had not named the suspect who escaped.

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