"They say the FAX is from the local grocery store. Guess you're free to go."
Posted on 04/21/2007 10:15:24 PM PDT by CAWats
HICKMAN, Kentucky — Officials mistakenly released a prisoner from a Kentucky facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered him freed, and it took them nearly two weeks to realize it.
The fax contained grammatical errors, was not typed on letterhead and was sent from a local grocery store. The fax falsely claimed that the Kentucky Supreme Court "demanded" Timothy Rouse be released.
Rouse, 19, is charged with beating an elderly man and was at the Kentucky Correctional & Psychiatric Center in La Grange for a mental evaluation. He was released April 6 after officials received the fake court order.
Lexington police arrested Rouse at his mother's home Thursday evening.
"It's outrageous that it happened," Fulton County Attorney Rick Major said. "I'm just glad nobody got hurt because he's dangerous."
Police are still investigating who faxed the letter.
Attorney Carlos Moran, who is representing Rouse, declined to comment.
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I'll be back later...I'm ganna go get my ex-wife locked up.
All you need to get out is a FAX? Let’s not have THIS word get out. / rolling eyes
Other than that, it wa OK.
Just the FAX, man. Sorry.
How can someone not tell the difference between a form faxed by a court and some gibberish faxed from a grocery store?
Makes you wonder if the cons should run the joint. They can spot a con (or a fake fax) a mile away.
“How can someone not tell the difference between a form faxed by a court and some gibberish faxed from a grocery store?”
Thank the public school system and the NEA.
"They say the FAX is from the local grocery store. Guess you're free to go."
or a xerox copy signed by your mother and a library card as proof of i.d.
Fake, but accurate?
Did Mary Mapes get a job with the Kentucky Department of Corrections?
The guy released was probably an illegal alien from South of the Border and the fax was sent by his illiterate buddies.
But the "DUMMY OF THE YEAR' award has to go to the Jail Management.
Your civil service workers at their finest.
Don’t be an alarmist. I believe this was sent from Pick & Pay, a well-respected local lawfirm who was representing the plaintiff. I also understand that they are having a special on smoked ham, and the first 20 customers will also receive a free can of pork brains in milk gravy, at no extra charge. I hope the county officials paid attention to that, because they could use really put those brains to good use, ya know? Times are hard.
Well, fax is stranger than fiction.
Yep, that must be it! You can tell by his name...Timothy Rouse.
Could there be a connection between the Kentucky Supreme Court and a grocery store? Maybe that is how Kentuckians feel about there Court.
No wonder they bought it - - it looked like an official government communication.
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