Washington state psychiatric hospital captured,

Washington State Patrol officials said 28-year-old Anthony Garver was arrested in Spokane at about 8:30 p.m. A police K9 found Garver hiding in some brush, according to officials with Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

Garver’s escape from Western State Hospital Wednesday launched a statewide manhunt. He and another patient, Mark Alexander Adams, escaped through the ground-room floor window.

Adams was captured the next morning without incident after he was seen getting on a public bus not far from the hospital.

Garver was charged in 2013 with tying a 20-year-old woman to her bed with electrical cords, stabbing her 24 times in the chest and slashing her throat, prosecutors said.

He had been moved to a lower-security unit in the psychiatric hospital after a judge said mental health treatment to prepare him to face criminal charges was not working and ordered him held as a danger to himself or others.

Authorities said he bought a bus ticket from Seattle across the state to Spokane, where he was spotted April 7. He was spotted at his parents’ house before fleeing when his father called 911, investigators said. Surveillance video showed Garver buying a bus ticket for Spokane at about 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Authorities there searched for him in a wooded area with dogs, a SWAT team and helicopters after he stopped at his parents' home in the area.

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich called the manhunt Thursday “a pretty intense situation.”

The escape is the latest in a litany of problems at the 800-bed hospital south of Tacoma, where violent assaults on both staff and patients have occurred.

U.S. regulators have repeatedly cited the facility over safety concerns and threatened to cut millions in federal funding. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently extended the hospital's deadline for fixing the problems from April 1 to May 3.

A federal judge also has said the hospital has failed to provide timely competency services to mentally ill people charged with crimes.

Patients in the hospital's lower-security unit are checked every hour, Reyes said. Garver and Adams were not placed in the high-security unit because a judge granted a state request to hold them as a danger to themselves or others after treatment failed to restore their ability to understand the criminal charges against them.

Officials are conducting a safety review of the hospital and will bring in outside experts to help, Reyes said.

"We can never have too many fresh eyes reviewing a situation as serious as this," Reyes said in a statement.

The state has tried to fix some of the problems by increasing funding to hire more workers. But the hospital has struggled with recruiting and retaining staffers.

Wednesday’s brazen escape by the two men wasn’t the first time someone escaped from Western State Hospital,Q13 Fox reported. Another patient slipped through the gymnasium door in 2011, but was later caught.