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| Jailers Mistakenly Release Wrong Person |
| By WISN TheMilwaukeeChannel.com |
| Published: 09/24/2001 |
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A manhunt of sorts is under way after jailers mistakenly released an accused drug dealer from the Milwaukee County House of Correction in Franklin. Officials at the jail said that he was released because he was wearing the identification bracelet of another inmate. 'They came here that night and asked me where he was, and I said I thought he was in the house, and they said he's not,' Cynthia Howze said. Cynthia said that she hasn't heard from her son, Lemar Howze, since jailers mistakenly released him on September 7. 'Honestly, I'm kind of happy he out, but I hate the way he got out - you know what I mean.' 'I have to assume they just stretched it and got it off,' Capt. Mark Strachota of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department said. Sheriff's investigators said that two inmates housed at the Milwaukee County House of Correction swapped ID bracelets last week. Police were holding 34-year-old Andrew Donerson on $100 bail for retail theft. Howze, 20, was being held on $5,000 for a drug-dealing arrest. Donerson made bail Friday afternoon, but jailers said that they released Howze, who was wearing Donerson's ID. Donerson offered little explanation. 'He has said he lost his wristband. That doesn't explain why he's wearing Mr. Howze's, but he said he lost his,' Strachota said. Detectives figure Howze threatened or paid Donerson to make the swap. Officials are investigating how Howze got out of the Milwaukee County House Of Correction without anyone noticing he was wearing someone else's ID. |
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