An inmate who escaped from a health department van while being transported to a Newark hospital last week has now been arrested, the New Jersey State Police said.

State Police are asking the public for help to find a registered sex offender who they say escaped in New Jersey on Thursday.

Authorities in New Jersey are searching for a 25-year-old registered sex offender who escaped from a medical transport van that took him for a routine appointment last week, officials say. Nicholas Voutsas hasn’t been seen since he fled the New Jersey Department of Health van around 9 a.

A sex offender escaped from a New Jersey medical transport van, and state police are asking for the public’s help in tracking him down.

A registered sex offender who escaped from custody while being transported in Newark last week has been apprehended, authorities said. Nicholas Voutsas, 25, had escaped from a New Jersey Department of Health medical transport van while en route to a hospital,

New Jersey cops have launched a manhunt for a 25-year-old “repetitive compulsive’’ sex offender who broke out of a health department van on his way to a Newark hospital last week. Nicholas Voutsas, who is listed as a Tier 2 sex offender on the Garden State’s registry,