HONOLULU - State Sheriff’s deputies apprehended inmate Rory Sitani in the Wai?anae area today, Aug. 6, 2024, after he left the Laumaka Work Furlough Center Monday, Aug. 5, 2024.

Sheriff’s deputies returned him to custody at the O?ahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) at approximately 11:30 a.m. today.

Sitani, 39, left the Laumaka Work Furlough Center at about 11 a.m. Monday. He was not authorized to leave.

He is serving time for first-degree criminal property damage and burglary. He now faces an escape charge, a Class C felony that is punishable by up to five years in prison, if convicted.

Sitani is a community custody inmate in the work furlough program. Community custody is the lowest classification status.