JACKSON — A patient at the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System in Jackson has been taken into custody after escaping the facility and roaming the nearby area early Friday morning, East Feliciana Parish Sheriff Jeff Travis told the WBRZ Investigative Unit. 

The sheriff's office received a call about the man around 1:30 a.m. after he was seen running near homes wearing only an adult diaper and a shirt.

Notes in an internal report about the incident say "CALLER WITH EAST ADV(ised) CODE BROWN PATEINT HAS ESCAPED ADV THEY DO WANT POLICE ASSIST AND THEY HAVE NO INFO ON WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE OR WHERE HE IS AT"

A video of the man posted to facebook showed the man entering a nearby garage before running away. 

Deputies added that they found the patient within 20 minutes in a Subway parking lot nearby on a bike that he took from the garage featured in the video. 

The East Feliciana Mental Health System is a state-run hospital that treats mentally ill adults who require immediate or long-term hospitalization as well as forensic patients, who have been remanded there through the legal system.

The Investigative Unit is working on getting more information about the man.