St. Tammany Parish LA Dec 21 2017 Parish deputies have arrested 11 people accused of working to smuggle drugs into the parish jail. Detectives say inmate Justin Olivieri led the drug ring. His girlfriend allegedly used different drop-off points outside the jail while trustees brought the narcotics and other drugs inside. At least three of […]
Gaston NC Dec 6 2017 Inmates at the Gaston County Jail beware: the voice on the other end of the phone isn’t always who he says he is. That’s according to arrest warrants and Carl Byrd, a licensed bail bondsman who says his name and information were used to try to get money from inmates’ families. […]
TRENTON NJ Oct 20 2017 — Donald Ryland, the veteran Mercer County corrections officer arrested earlier this week, was charged Thursday with sexually assaulting a second woman. Ryland, 44, is charged with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated assault. According to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, on Oct. 12, Trenton police officers responded to call for […]
OKLAHOMA CITY OK Aug 25 2017 An Oklahoma sheriff says two escaped inmates who stole a prisoner transport van may be armed even though one of the guards escorting the inmates says he didn’t have a gun. Major County Sheriff Steve Randolph says 32-year-old Andrew Foy and 37-year-old Darren Walp escaped Tuesday morning by overpowering […]
OCALA, Fla. Aug 25 2017 A federal corrections officer in Florida is facing charges that he took a bribe in exchange for delivering drugs to an inmate. Federal prosecutors say Albert Harris was arrested late Tuesday. Harris works as a correctional officer in a penitentiary at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex northwest of Orlando. Authorities say […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, SC July 18 2017 A Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been fired after an inmate, who is now in custody, escaped from a hospital. Authorities say 28-year-old Mariel A. Watson was arrested on Monday morning after his escape from Trident Hospital Sunday afternoon. Authorities say Watson was captured by BCSO deputies and […]
LARGO FL July 5 2017 – A prisoner being taken to jail by a private security officer was injured Monday (July 3) when the transport van was rear ended, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said. The driver, Janice Blue, 59, a security officer for G4S, and Lukasz Jan Tatarczuch, 34, of Clearwater, both suffered injuries that […]
Jacksonville FL June 26 2017 Jacksonville police captured three teen inmates Saturday morning – a week after they overpowered a guard to escape from a state youth detention facility on the city’s Northside. Detectives tracking down leads found all three together in the 7200 block of Old Kings Road South about 10 a.m. and took […]
MANCHESTER TN June 20 2017 — In what a prosecutor called a cowardly act, an inmate shot and injured two Coffee County Sheriff’s Department deputies during a struggle at the courthouse Monday afternoon before fleeing and fatally shooting himself, authorities said. The shooting shut down the Coffee County Justice Center here in this town 65 […]
Jacksonville FL June 19 2017 The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is currently working an incident involving three escaped inmates from a Florida Department of Juvenile Justice facility on Lannie Road. Police received notification at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 18, 2017 from the facility that these three inmates escaped and had battered staff members. Police responded […]