Posted on 05/16/2019 7:34:36 AM PDT by Gamecock
FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas — An Arkansas woman was given 15 years in prison for posing as a California sheriff’s deputy and convincing Washing County Jail officials to release her boyfriend from jail.
Maxine Feldstein, 30, pleaded guilty on Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to forgery, third-degree escape and second-degree criminal impersonation.
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She succeeded—initially. The pair were arrested about a month later in Fayetteville.
Feldstein presented false paperwork to the Washington County Detention Center in July 2018, which fooled the jailers into releasing her boyfriend, Nicholas Lowe.
Lowe pleaded guilty in February for escaping jail but received no jail time due to time already served, with five years of parole.
While in jail, Lowe told Feldstein to pose as a deputy from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in Ventura, California in order to trick jail officials into releasing Lowe to Feldstein, according to court documents.
Lowe said Feldstein should tell Washington County that Ventura County was “having issues with overcrowding and all low-priority extraditions have been suspended,” according to the affidavit.
Feldstein, who had only just bonded out of jail earlier that day, called the Washing County Jail and identified herself as deputy “L. Kershaw” with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.
She also provided a forged document releasing the agency’s hold on Lowe.
Jail staff learned of the forgery and accidental release two days later, when a real Ventura County sheriff deputy called to say he was on his way to pick up Lowe.
The sheriff’s office reportedly discovered the plan through jail video where Lowe told Feldstein of the plan while she visited him.
Washington County later figured out the document Feldstein used was fake, and that VCSO didn’t have a deputy named “L. Kershaw,” according to the affidavit.
A+ for initiative...
Not guilty
If only there were a device that someone could pick up, press a few number-correlated keys and talk to another person, say an administrator in another department, and verify the authenticity of a document or person.
Man, that would be something.
She’s (not) the sheriff.
Wow, that’s brazen!
She should have gone into politics. It seems like they never go to jail (except for Chicago).
You are talking some crazy science fiction there, brother!
Eric Clapton – I Shot The Sheriff
from album: 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.
All around in my home town
They’re trying to track me down.
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I say:
I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense.
I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense.
Sheriff john brown always hated me;
For what I don’t know.
Every time that I plant a seed
He said, kill it before it grows.
He said, kill it before it grows.
I say:
I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense.
I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense.
Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town.
All of a sudden I see sheriff john brown
Aiming to shoot me down.
So I shot, I shot him down.
I say:
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy.
Reflexes got the better of me
And what is to be must be.
Every day the bucket goes to the well,
But one day the bottom will drop out,
Yes, one day the bottom will drop out.
But I say:
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy, oh no.
I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot no deputy, oh no.
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Songwriters: Bob Marley
I Shot The Sheriff lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
I’m going to give her a pass on this one. That’s a girl you know has got your back.
She shouldn’t be in jail. She should be working for the CIA. Heck, she should be teaching a CIA infiltration class.
Gee, can get less prison time for killing someone.
That’s a pretty devoted girlfriend right there, if ya get right down to it.
“If only there were a device that someone could pick up, press a few number-correlated keys and talk to another person, say an administrator in another department, and verify the authenticity of a document or person.“
That’s just crazy talk. Almost as crazy as putting some kind of visual indicator on a car that would allow other drivers to know your intentions to change lanes or make a 90 degree turn.
L
Guilty must die
Interesting idea. But that's really not needed. Because there are methods available today - right now - that would have prevented this problem.
So, let’s see if the boyfriend will return the favor...
I was wondering what Nick Lowe was doing these days.
> Gee, can get less prison time for killing someone. <
Five years for the actual crime. Ten more years for embarrassing the authorities.
She’s pretty awesome.
American ingenuity.
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