A 50-year-old man faces multiple charges after police say he smashed through a hospital wall and fled into a wooded area while naked.
A Gouldsboro man was charged with indecent exposure and other crimes after allegedly smashing through a wall at Punxsutawney Area Hospital and fleeing into a nearby wooded area where police found him naked.
According to the criminal complaint, Punxsutawney-based State Police responded to the hospital on Hillcrest Drive at 11:24 p.m. on April 29.
Hospital staff told investigators that 50-year-old Andrew Robert Barton Jr. was running through the building, and they were unsure where he had gone, the affidavit of probable cause stated. Police said they found a smashed section of drywall in a hallway where Barton was last seen.
Surveillance footage showed Barton walking east through the parking lot, the complaint said. A police dog tracked a scent through several private backyards toward Walston Park and Ball Field. Officers noted in the affidavit that they located a hospital gown on the ground along a power line during the search.
