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| Former Employee Barricades Himself in Mich. Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/31/2003 |
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A former prison employee surrendered Thursday after barricading himself with a shotgun for more than six hours inside the Macomb Correctional Facility. No one was injured and no shots were fired at the medium-security state prison in Macomb County's Lenox Township, 30 miles northeast of Detroit. The man was identified as Lee Ross, 32, a sergeant at the facility who had submitted his resignation early Saturday, said Leo Lalonde, director of communications for the Michigan Department of Corrections. Ross called the prison's personnel director Monday and asked her to hold the resignation, but it is unclear what he was told, Lalonde said. 'By today he hadn't heard whether they were going to hire him back or not, so he went to the office to find out,' state police Sgt. Robert Yorke said from the Richmond post. Ross, a Corrections Department employee since 1996, was being held at the Macomb County Jail. State police planned to seek charges that could include kidnapping, trespassing, possession of body armor during commission of a felony and attempted arson, Yorke said. Ross parked his car outside the building's main door about 9:40 a.m. EST, walked through an unsecured employee door and made his way to the second-floor personnel office, Lalonde said. He was carrying a shotgun when he walked past an information desk officer and said, 'Get your head down,' Lalonde said. The officer got under a desk and called the facility command center. After speaking for five to ten minutes with the five civilian employees in the office, Ross told them they could leave and barricaded himself in the room, said Wanda Moore, a department inspector. The prison was locked down while four negotiators talked with Ross through an office door down a hallway. About 4 p.m., the negotiators had stopped speaking with Ross and he told them he was surrendering, Lalonde said. 'Part of the negotiation process was a period of silence,' Lalonde said. ' ... he probably figured, `What's going on?' And he just gave himself up.' The lockdown at the 1,250-inmate prison was being gradually lifted Thursday evening, Lalonde said. The area Ross entered Thursday morning is not part of a secure area, and detectors that would have prevented him from bringing in a weapon were not present. |
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