Jefferson County And Pine Bluff Lost A Prisoner
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Pine Bluff and Jefferson County authorities
are looking for a prisoner they misplaced in a series of jail
transfers.
Fred McCoy, age 25, is supposed to be in state prison for
domestic battery, but he was moved around last year because of a
lack of room. He was supposed to appear in Jefferson County
District Court on separate misdemeanor charges last September.
Authorities lost track of him after that.
A Pine Bluff police officer signed McCoy out of Jefferson County
jail on September 16th. Correction Department spokeswoman Dina
Tyler says he may have been let go after the hearing by mistake.
Tyler said mistakes like this are not common, but they DO happen
because there are so many prisoners being transferred for lack of
room.
