Pennsylvania police search for 9 teens who escaped detention center amid 'riot'

Just days after ending a weeks-long manhunt for an escaped prisoner, authorities in Pennsylvania were back on the chase for nine teens who fled from a detention center following a "riot" at the facility Sunday night.

Just days after ending a weeks-long manhunt for an escaped prisoner, authorities in Pennsylvania were back on the chase for nine teens who fled from a detention center following a "riot" at the facility Sunday night.

By Monday morning, all nine had been located, the Pennsylvania State Police said, according to NBC Philadelphia.

The teens had managed to escape from Abraxas Academy in Morgantown, about 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia, at around 8 p.m. ET Sunday night, police said in an initial post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The Caernarvon Township Police Department said the escape unfolded after a “riot” broke out at Abraxas Academy.

State and local police responded to the incident and were able to take “back control of the juvenile detention center,” but some juvenile offenders were reported to have fled the facility and were “on the run,” the department said in a news release on its website.