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| Jail staff to blame for inmate's escape |
| By kvue.com - JESSICA HOLLOWAY |
| Published: 03/03/2012 |
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BURNET COUNTY, Texas -- The Burnet County Sheriff says "human error" is to blame after a convicted rapist escaped from the Burnet County Jail overnight. Burnet County Sheriff W.T. Smith said guards at the jail noticed Johnny Angel Ybarra, 40, missing from his cell between 3:30 a.m. and 3:45 a.m. Thursday during breakfast call. “Just nerve-racking that you knowing that they're out there, that they could be dangerous to other people,” said Albert Ford who lives a few blocks from the jail. Sheriff Smith says guards checked on Ybarra several times overnight.. When jail staff checked his room at 2:30 Thursday morning, they saw a lump lying under a sheet. Assuming it was him, they didn't check. By then, Ybarra was already gone. When they brought food to his room at 3:30 a.m., they realized he was missing. Smith now says he believes jail staff is to blame. "It's on us," warden Bruce Zeller said. "Like the sheriff said, the responsibility is on Lasalle Corrections, our facility, and our employees." Smith says Ybarra broke through bricks under the sink in his cell then climbed up through to a sky light and onto the roof. The warden believes Ybarra used a handicap hand-rail as a tool to dig a tunnel through a cinder block and through a wall under the sink. Read More. |
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