Authorities found a man who escaped from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program facility in St. Peter on Friday morning and took him into custody.

Beau-Jacob Edward Zimmer was captured just after 7 a.m., the St. Peter Police Department said.

Zimmer left the facility on a bicycle around 1:30 a.m. Friday and was believed to have been armed with an orange-handled kitchen knife with an approximate 3-inch blade, police said.

Police had issued an alert when Zimmer went missing and found him after a resident spotted him and called law enforcement, authorities said.