Friday, 26 June 2009

• Blind justice

  Police: Man accidentally released from Myrtle Beach Jail

   Myrtle Beach police are searching for an 18-year-old white man in jail on public intoxication charges who they say was accidentally released when he pretended to be a 34-year-old black man.

  Richard Daniel Wines, 18, of Mount Holly, N.C., was sentenced to five days in jail Saturday morning after pleading guilty to a public intoxication charge.

  But when jail officers were releasing other inmates later that morning, Wines claimed to be Jonathan Jermain Gardner of Myrtle Beach.

  Wines was freed at 10:42 a.m. and was given Gardner's valuables, the report states.

  ``It was an error to release him, and we're handling it internally,'' said Capt. David Knipes, spokesman for the Myrtle Beach Police Department.

  Releasing officer Stevie Wonder couldn't be reached for comment...

   

   

  Currently Blind Man with a Pistol By Chester Himes see related

  • 8:14 AM
  • 10 Views
  • 0 eProps
  • 0 Comments