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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) A man who was charged in a scamming scheme is now wanted for escaping a corrections facility in Allegheny County. According to the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office, forty-year-old Zhudi Chen, was transferred from the Allegheny County Jail to alternative housing on October 22nd, 2025. Chen was then moved on November 8th, 2025 to a Renewal community-based corrections facility on the Boulevard of the Allies in Downtown Pittsburgh. Police confirm that Chen used a fourth-floor fire escape to get out of the facility and never came back. FBI agents arrested Chen in October on charges of defrauding a 76-year-old man out of $130,000 in Springdale Township. Chen remains at large and now faces an escape charge at this time.