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| Inmate pretends to be another, walks out of jail |
| By miningjournal.net - AP |
| Published: 08/28/2012 |
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A jail inmate in Michigan posed as someone else and walked out the door untouched. Nicholas Yoder was caught a short time later, but the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported Saturday the 23-year-old’s escape two days earlier put the Grand Traverse County jail’s procedures under the microscope. Yoder was released around 2 p.m. Thursday when he claimed to be an inmate scheduled for discharge. Police were after him a few minutes later when the mix-up was discovered. He was on the run for a little more than an hour before authorities arrested him at Central Grade School. “Obviously, a mistake was made,” Sheriff Tom Bensley said. “The upside is we caught the guy.” Yoder was booked into the jail shortly after midnight Wednesday on a parole violation. He was on parole stemming from a 2011 larceny conviction, Michigan Department of Corrections records show. Yoder was in a cell that held several inmates when a corrections officer called out a name. That inmate was asleep, so Yoder walked up and pretended to be him, Bensley said, adding that Yoder had removed a wristband used for identification purposes. Read More. |
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