FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — A jail official from Alabama is lacking after escorting an inmate to a courthouse for a listening to.
The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Workplace said in a Facebook post Saturday that Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White disappeared whereas escorting an inmate being held on capital homicide expenses. The inmate can also be lacking.
Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Workplace through AP
On Saturday morning, Sheriff Rick Singleton confirmed the Alabama Regulation Enforcement Company, FBI, and U.S. Marshals are helping within the investigation.
White, 56, who’s been with the division for 16 years, left the detention heart with inmate Casey White on Friday morning and neither has been seen since. The pair usually are not associated. The automobile they have been touring in after they left the detention heart was found at a close-by buying heart car parking zone, in response to the sheriff’s workplace.
White, 38, was being held on capital homicide expenses within the 2015 dying of Connie Ridgeway. He confessed to the slaying in 2020 whereas in state jail for different crimes, WHNT-TV reported.
Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Workplace
At a information convention Friday, Singleton mentioned Vicky White, armed with a 9mm, left the detention heart with the inmate round 9:41 a.m. headed to the courthouse for what she mentioned was a psychological well being analysis for Casey. She was alone with the inmate, which the sheriff mentioned was in direct violation of division coverage.
“Our coverage is for any inmate with these sorts of expenses to have two sworn deputies escort them. And that didn’t occur,” Singleton mentioned.
Singleton additionally mentioned there was no psychological well being analysis for the inmate scheduled on the courthouse.
White additionally instructed co-workers she had a health care provider’s appointment scheduled, which was confirmed however the workplace mentioned the deputy by no means confirmed.
Officers mentioned nobody realized the 2 have been lacking till 3:30 p.m. on Friday. Deputies tried to contact Vicky White however her telephone repeatedly went to voicemail.
Singleton mentioned his division was “aggressively investigating” the incident and could be wanting into earlier interplay between the 2 to “see if one thing else was happening.”
Singleton mentioned his division was “shocked” and that it was clearly a risk that the corrections officer helped him escape. Singleton instructed information retailers that Vicky White had turned in her retirement papers the day earlier than she went lacking.
No matter her involvement, the sheriff acknowledged she may very effectively be in peril.
