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Violent Inmate Allowed To Work Fire Line, Escaped
By redding.com
Published: 08/11/2010

Jeffory Shook, who was arrested last week in Siskiyou County after escaping from a prisoner fire crew, is not the kind of model inmate state and local firefighters increasingly have come to rely on while battling the north state’s wildfires.

Detectives say the 36-year-old former Lincoln man is friends with members of the Aryan Brotherhood white supremacist prison gang. Twice he has been shot and wounded by police after leading officers on dangerous, out-of-control car chases.

And, detectives say, he once tried to run over a police officer.

Yet the inmate, who Placer County Sheriff Ed Bonner once called “one of the most violent and dangerous suspects we’ve encountered in a long time,” ended up fighting fires as part of a minimum-security Northern California inmate fire crew.

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