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| Inmate let out by mistake accused in robbery |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/28/2005 |
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An inmate released by mistake from Nash County's (N.C.) jail has been charged with robbing one bank and trying to rob another a week later, authorities said. "We let him out by mistake," Nash County Sheriff Jimmy Grimes said last Wednesday. "It was our fault." Ricky Jerome Smith, 23, had been sentenced to 11 to 14 months behind bars on Feb. 15 for a string of vehicle break-ins in 2003 in Nashville and was waiting to be taken to Central Prison in Raleigh. Smith also was sentenced to supervised probation for other charges related to the same set of break-ins. "The paperwork we received showed 11 to 14 months DOC (N.C. Department of Correction)," Grimes said, adding that the jailers had been disciplined. "And right below that, it said supervised probation. "They see this kind of paperwork everyday, so they should have realized it." Smith was arrested last Tuesday on a charge of robbing a bank in Bailey and that night charged with attempted robbery at another bank in the Wilson County town of Sims. At the Sims bank, the manager saw a man wearing a ski mask and black clothing turn away while trying to enter the bank. At the Bailey bank a short time later, a man demanded cash and a teller handed some over. Smith was arrested after a foot chase when a deputy responding to a robbery call saw him changing clothes on the side of the road. The next day, deputies discovered he should have still been in jail. |
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