Posted on 07/12/2008 10:53:36 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A city jail guard may have betrayed his badge to help an accused cop-killer, slipping the ex-con a handcuff key in a foiled escape plot, sources told the Daily News.
The unidentified Rikers Island officer is under investigation for conspiring with Lee Woods, one of three men charged with killing Brooklyn police officer Russel Timoshenko, the sources said.
The murder suspect swallowed the key - believed to have come from the correction officer - but never had a chance to use it.
A jailhouse metal detector picked up the key in his digestive system on June 25, the day authorities blocked Woods from a scheduled Brooklyn court appearance, sources said.
"For a man this manipulative and violent to have a handcuff key is a pretty shocking betrayal," said one law enforcement source.
Two rookie correction officers - Auguste Durand, 31, and Michael Santiago, 24 - were fired the same day on charges of delivering marijuana, rolling papers, cigarettes and an occasional swig of booze to Woods, correction officials confirmed.
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“They took away my Koran.”
....amazing how many black inmates are Muslim now...I see them as a future 5th column for Islamic expansion in the U.S.
Lee Woods is pictured at the Daily News link. The picture shown here is the police officer he murdered.
Sorry. When this initially came up, Lee Woods’ picture did not....Now it does. Windows. Who knows?
We'd have to attend to supervise and listen to them talk about blue-eyed devils. When I complained I was excused from that supervision.
I was in Graterford, PA prison in the early 90s. They had a Mosque under the two chapels. Very elaborate. I remember the Lt. giving the tour took off his shoes, so we did also. Never saw that before.
I think that Islam has become more influential than the NOI and of course that's scarier than some of the murders the NOI committed on the streets. We had very few discipline problems with them. They seemed to do good time and followed the rules, despite the avowed hatred. The bean pies were good too : )
I suppose the key was going to be produuced from one of those “black holes” that have been in the news lately.
What were you in for?
A day. LOL. There were 4,400 male inmates. The way I looked then, I was very noticable.
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