A 17-year-old boy who is accused of a crime spree in Colorado Springs that involved committing burglaries with a gun has escaped from Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Golden.

Quinn Scaggs fled the detention facility around midnight Tuesday, said Madlynn Ruble, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Human Services.

“He is a violent offender and I would say he is very dangerous,” Golden Police Department Deputy Chief Joe Harvey said. “He just does a lot of assaults.”

Scaggs faces five felony charges, including three alleged assaults against juvenile correctional officers on Oct. 8, Jan. 11 and Feb. 17, according to Jefferson County District Court records. He also is charged with assault with bodily fluids in connection with the October incident, and he was charged with riot in a detention facility in connection with the February case, court records show.

Scaggs is 6-feet-2 and weighs 160 pounds. He has a tattoo above his right eyebrow that says, “Loyalty.” He has blond hair and blue eyes, Ruble wrote in a news release.

Harvey said it is possible that Scaggs could steal a car or break into a home.

Ruble recommends that if residents see Scaggs they should immediately call 911. Because Scaggs is a juvenile, Ruble said she was limited in how much she could say about the escape.

Scaggs was accounted for at 11:58 p.m. Monday and within 21 minutes managed to tear out molding around the window of his room and rip out the window to escape, Harvey said.

He tied bed sheets together to get over the perimeter fence, according to a human services news release.

In April, Colorado Springs police sought Scaggs for several felony crimes including a series of burglaries, according to previous police news releases.

Golden police also are investigating a felony assault charge against Scaggs, who is scheduled to appear in court on July 1 for a hearing to determine whether he should be tried as a juvenile or an adult in pending felony cases.

Lookout mountain has had several recent incidents including two prior escapes and riots.

Two sex offenders with gang ties, including one deemed a violent sex offender, escaped from Lookout Mountain on May 6.

In May, a state human services official said a third of the staff positions designed to work directly with youth were vacant. The department moved juveniles to other facilities to reduce the ratio of youth to staff. It is a secured treatment program for 140 male juvenile offenders, Ruble said.

Still, the latest escape is troubling, Harvey said.

“I’m concerned that we have had another escape,” Harvey said. “I’m concerned that he is a violent offender. I’m concerned that he could be in our community.”

One positive sign Harvey saw in Tuesday’s early-morning escape is that staff members discovered the disappearance within 21 minutes.

However, with that amount of time to run, Scaggs could have been long gone, he said.