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| S.C. Sheriff, Jailer At Odds Over Suspected Escape, Drugs In Cell |
| By WYFF |
| Published: 03/05/2003 |
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Jail incident reports obtained by News 4 detail the basis of a dispute between the Anderson County Sheriff Gene Taylor and county detention center director Bob Daly. Cocaine and marijuana were found in the cell of an Anderson County jail trusty. The man, Demetrice Fruster, 25, disappeared from his cell one night recently. According to an incident report, Anderson Detention Center Sgt. Eric Boggs saw an inmate get in a car after bed check and ride off. Officers then locked down the jail and started counting heads. Boggs observed someone he thought might have been an inmate leaving the building, Daly told WYFF News 4's Brad Willis. That prompted the lockdown and the prisoner count. Officers found Fruster's bed made up to look like someone was sleeping in it, the reports said. Officers conducted a search of the jail grounds and located Fruster. 'When they found Fruster, he was actually still here on the Detention Center grounds, but in an empty parking lot, far away from where he was actually supposed to be,' Daly said. 'So the next day, they checked his cell and what they found raised a lot more questions.' A more thorough search of the cell turned up the drugs, which jail officials sent to their in-house labs for tests, Daly said. Taylor said that his office should have been notified immediately after the discovery of the drugs. 'I think that night when they searched the room and they found marijuana and they found cocaine, they should have notified us,' Taylor told News 4. 'They're not police. We have one police agency in the county and that's the Sheriff's Office.' Daly said that he was just following protocol. 'The Sheriff's Office can't test the drugs. They don't have any chemists,' Daly told News 4. 'They don't have a laboratory to test the drugs. So it's just natural we would give the drugs to the chemist. If we had given them to the Sheriff, he would have had to bring them back over the chemist.' Daly said that he has now turned over the criminal investigation to the sheriff's office. 'They guy left the property in a car. I think that's dangerous,' Taylor told News 4. 'They should've stopped the car and they should've immediately notified us. They didn't.' After the discovery of the drugs, Fruster was transferred to a high-security area of the jail. He will remain there until the sheriff's office decides if it will file any criminal charges. |
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