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| Officers absolved in fatal car theft |
| By tbo.com |
| Published: 06/10/2011 |
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An internal investigation has cleared state corrections workers who let a probation violator slip away from their office just minutes before a fatal carjacking she is accused of committing. Workers in the Citrus County office did nothing wrong by failing to arrest probation violator Jennifer Marino on April 7, 2010, according to a report by the Department of Corrections Inspector General's Office. Still, state corrections Secretary Edwin Buss ordered a number of policy reviews in response to the report, department spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said. Jason Haynie, son of victim Mary Haynie, was disappointed at the conclusions and said he doubts changes will be made. "It's sad to see that nobody's being held accountable," he said. Marino's case had several red flags at the time she walked out of the probation office in Inverness. Marino, 32, was a fugitive who was supposed to be under supervision in New York, a felony probation violator from an earlier carjacking attempt in Florida, and newly released from a Miami mental hospital where she was considered a danger to others. What's more, in the probation office that day, she acted strangely, disturbed visitors and ignored officers. She had acted strangely earlier at the homeless shelter that took her to the probation office. "While the behavior of Offender Jennifer Marino may have been described as bizarre by some witnesses, it was not manifestly indicative or articulable and predictable criminal violence," the inspector general's report concludes. Read More. |
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