A recently arrested man is back on the streets thanks to an incompetent jailer in Craven County.
Newschannel 12’s Aisha Howard reports that while Sheriff Jerry Monette was holding a press conference lauding the arrest of Jonathan Staton and two other men in a drug bust…Staton was walking out.
According to Monette, Staton offered fellow inmate Ricky Bryant $5000 for his release papers. Staton was under a $2 million bond…Bryant’s was unsecured. When the jailer called for Bryant, Staton stepped up and stepped out.
The jailer has been suspended pending an internal investigation. As for Bryant, he’s still in jail and out five grand.
I’m not sure what the process is for checking people out of jail…but you would think that there would be some kind of proof of identification to keep something like this from happening.
It’s nice to see this level of law enforcement from the president of the N.C. Sheriff’s Association.
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July 10, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Barney Fife has struck again, and it will only get better.