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| Mo. Cops Nab Mistakenly Freed Inmate |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/04/2002 |
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Police recently recaptured a murder defendant who had been mistakenly released from jail in Missouri after he switched identities with another inmate. Derrick Booth was captured without incident at a friend's house in St. Louis, police spokesman Richard Wilkes said. He said he had no other details. Booth, 25, was mistakenly released from a medium-security city jail on February 15 after he switched identities with a teen-age drug suspect, authorities said. His release came just a day after he was arrested on charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the April killings of a St. Louis police officer's son and another man. Authorities alleged that Booth and 17-year-old Antonio Harris, also arrested on February 14, exchanged their jail ID wristbands and then gave each other's birth dates and Social Security numbers. After Harris' bond was arranged, Booth posed as Harris and was taken to the municipal court building, where he was released. The jail houses more than 1,000 inmates on various state charges. City officials are working to ensure that such an escape doesn't happen again, said Pat Maloney, a spokesman for the city's Public Safety division. 'We're taking a good, hard look at procedures,' he said. Last year, a man arrested in a car crash that killed three women got out of jail after switching his identification wristband with a jailed nephew. Anthony D. Rogers, 28, was captured two days later. |
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