(BIVN) — Three inmates escaped from the Hawai’i Community Correctional Center’s Hale Nani facility in Hilo on Friday.

The refugees are:

• Clyde T. Loa, 31, is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 250 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He is serving a sentence for unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle and resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle.
• Kawai J. Pomroy, 41, is described as six feet tall, weighing 260 pounds, with brownish-black hair and a grayish goatee and brown eyes. He is serving a sentence for abusing a family or household member.
• Joseph C. Fernandez, 35, is described as 5 feet 11 inches tall, 195 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He is serving a sentence for carrying or possessing a loaded firearm on a public street.

All three were last seen leaving the facility in a gray 2014 Nissan Altima with Hawaiian license plate ZCK261, police said. It is not known which direction they were moving at the time of the escape.

According to a press release from the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation:

41-year-old inmate Kawai J. Pomroy was first found missing. When staff discovered that inmates Clyde T. Loa, 31, and Joseph C. Fernandez, 35, were also missing, an emergency lockdown was implemented.

Around the same time, an employee discovered his car keys and vehicle were missing. The vehicle is described as a metallic dark gray 2014 Nissan Altima with Hawaiian license plate ZCK 261.

Employees immediately called the Hawaiian Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department.

Police ask anyone with information about the whereabouts of Loa, Pomroy or Fernandez to contact Lieutenant Grant K. Todd of the Hilo Patrol at (808) 935-3311 or email [email protected] turn around. Tipsters who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (808) 961-8300.