Prisoner Wrongly Freed After Officials Get Phony Fax (Full Of Typos, Faxed From Grocery Store)

[matcom]

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HICKMAN, Kentucky (AP) - Officials mistakenly released a prisoner from a Kentucky facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered him freed, and it took them nearly two weeks to realize it.

The fax contained grammatical errors, was not typed on letterhead and was sent from a local grocery store. The fax falsely claimed that the Kentucky Supreme Court "demanded" Timothy Rouse be released.

Rouse, 19, is charged with beating an elderly man and was at the Kentucky Correctional & Psychiatric Center in La Grange for a mental evaluation. He was released April 6 after officials received the fake court order.

Lexington police arrested Rouse at his mother's home Thursday evening.

"It's outrageous that it happened," Fulton County Attorney Rick Major said. "I'm just glad nobody got hurt because he's dangerous."

Police are still investigating who faxed the letter.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070421/K042106AU.html

[Fran Kubelik]

1. OMG

:rofl:

[underpants]

2. pffft we went to freaking war over about the same thing

[tk2kewl]

3. Reminds me of Idiocracy...

"I am supposed to be getting *out* of jail today"

Your in the wrong line dumbass!"

:rofl: