Law officers throughout the region are on the lookout for a convict who escaped from the minimum security lockup at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth.

Forty-nine-year-old Joel Rodriguez is listed as an escapee by the federal inmate locator.

Rodriguez was missing from his assigned quarters Sunday afternoon. A statement from the prison did not indicate how he got out.

Rodriguez was serving a 98 month federal drug sentence.