A 19-year-old female, originally arrested in connection with a forgery, escaped from a Milledgeville Police car Monday night and sent officers on a wild-goose chase in an attempt to locate her.

According an incident report from the Milledgeville Police Department, the 19-year-old female was handcuffed with her hands in front due to her fairly cooperative nature, and she was placed in the right rear passenger seat of a police car.

The officer then went to the driver’s door and unlocked it with his key in order to retrieve a note pad to interview the remaining occupants of the female’s car, and left the driver’s side door unlocked, the report states.

While the officer was interviewing the two occupants of the car, a passerby pulled in the South Wayne Street pharmacy parking lot where the car had been pulled over and advised officers that a black female was running down South Wayne Street, the report states.

After checking the back of the police car, the officer saw that the female was missing, the report states.

According to the report, five law enforcement officers arrived at the area within a few minutes and proceeded to establish a perimeter, and eventually an officer on South Jefferson Street spotted the female hiding next the Georgia Military College campus trailers between East Baldwin and East Franklin streets.

The officer slammed on brakes and put his car into reverse, but the female had vanished by the time he was able to get to the location, the report states.

Officers then established a perimeter around the GMC trailers, and after a while a resident of a home on South Wayne Street advised the station that a black female was knocking at the door requesting to use the phone and the resident advised that the female was last seen heading north toward GMC, the report states.

Again, the officers proceeded to the area and an officer eventually advised station that the female was located and taken into custody near the 100 block of East Franklin Street, the report states.

According to the report, the arresting officer advised that the female was able to slip the handcuffs off of her wrists and the handcuffs were located in the 500 block of South Wayne Street hidden underneath some leaves.

The female was transported to city detention where she was booked in for escape, obstruction of an officer and theft by taking for the handcuffs, the report states.