A US man has been charged with stealing a pair of handcuffs he was wearing when he escaped from a police car.

Douglas Lydic had been cuffed but not yet charged while officers searched a scene in his Indiana home town for drugs.

He climbed out of the car window and was found at his girlfriend's home miles away.

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