Convicted sex offender back in custody after walking away from a St. Louis hospital

(AP) — Authorities say a man convicted of child sex crimes is back in custody after walking away from a St. Louis hospital. 

Forty-five-year-old Tommy Wayne Boyd was taken Wednesday from the Potosi Correctional Facility to Mercy Hospital South for medical treatment. 

St. Louis County police said in a news release that surveillance video later showed him walking away from the hospital. He was apprehended Thursday night in a nearby suburb. 

Online court records show he was sentenced in 1997 in Springfield’s Greene County to 10 years in prison for first-degree statutory sodomy. 

In 2007, jurors in the county convicted him of enticement of a child, and he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.