WABASH CO.— Police officials have informed Disclosure early this morning (Sunday, August 24) that a naked Mt. Carmel man has been taken into custody after he refused to leave the local hospital.
Authorities were called to the Wabash General Hospital, located at 1418 College Dr., Mt. Carmel on a report of a subject knocking on windows and refusing to leave the property.
When police officers arrived they found Roger K. Burns, 59, naked and still knocking on hospital windows.
When authorities asked Burns why he was naked he said it was because his clothes were muddy.
When Burns shows officers where he had stashed his clothes nearby, officers found narcotics.
The naked Mr. Burns was taken into custody and charged with Criminal Trespass to State Supported Property and Possession of a Controlled Substance.
Burns was transported to the county jail where he was showered, and clothed in jail togs.
Burns is a convicted drug felon from 2005.
He was convicted March 14, 2006 of two counts of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance and one count of Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver and sentenced to three years in the Illinois Department of Corrections and ordered to pay $1,585 in fines and fees.
Bond has not yet been set in the case.