Posted on 08/29/2019 9:11:21 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Justin Clifton just wanted to get home without causing a stir.
A beeline seemed like the best route.
The 34-year-old Hayden, Idaho man was arrested early Saturday inside the secure perimeter of the Kootenai County jail and charged with criminal trespassing. He’ll be arraigned next month.
Clifton’s misdemeanor arraignment will be at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 16 before First District Magistrate Judge Robert Caldwell in Coeur d’Alene.
Clifton wanted to make it home safely Saturday evening after having a few beers at the North Idaho State Fair and Rodeo. Instead of driving, he walked north across the fair parking lot until he was met with an obstruction.
And then another one.
Fences with concertina wire on top marking the edge of the secure area of the Kootenai County jail yard weren’t made to stop Clifton, he told deputies. Not when he was determined to get home.
“(He) told me something to the effect of he was a Montana boy and the fastest way home is a straight line,” Deputy Robert Imthurn wrote in a report.
Clifton was first observed walking around inside the jail yard at 12:22 a.m. by jail employees watching a security camera.
The jail was locked down as authorities from several agencies rushed to the scene.
When officers arrived, Clifton climbed a fence, slipped through the wire and dropped to the ground on the other side, where he was arrested. “Based on Clifton crossing multiple fences with barbed wire on top and crossing into KCSO Jail facility,” Clifton was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing.
“Clifton advised he was jumping fences to get home,” Imthurn wrote.
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The jail guards didn’t see him until he was IN the jail yard. They missed him climbing the fence. Which m means some inmate could have sneaked out in the opposite direction. Sounds like the wrong guy is under arrest.
Wait - breaking into a jail is illegal? Even if it was in his way? This state is getting boring. I blame the Californians.
Had it been the Manhattan Detention Center..?
He would have made it home.
AND there would be no video, rest assured.
Sorry, most corrections agencies are set up to keep an eye on people breaking OUT. The fence sensors should’ve gone off as he was climbing on the outside, though.
CC
Not afraid to stick his neck out, evidently.
I took a look at the jail from Google Earth. There’s not much of a fence around it; just a chain-link thing about nine feet high, with nothing to prevent climbing it. It’s a rectangle about .35 by .5 miles, and the high school is directly beside it, with business and residential areas all around.
“Everything which is not illegal is mandatory”
Public property paid for by the taxpayers, no crime here.(sarc)
If he could slip in undetected then the inmates could slip out undetected. Barbed wire was meant for cattle, not humans. Concertina wire is meant for humans. Guessing, just like with Epstein, the guards were sleeping.
If the prisoners are totally accounted for, in the building and in their cells, is it unreasonable to relax the perimeter security? It can beefed up again when the prisoners are out in the yard. This is a county jail, not a supermax prison. At the best of times, the security here is not going to state-of-the-art because the typical profile of the prisoners here do not warrant that high a security level. This incident is more of an embarrassment to the local jailers than the sign of a serious security problem.
If this jail routinely housed seriously dangerous, violent criminals, do you really think that officials would have placed it within a stone's throw of a high school?
“(He) told me something to the effect of he was a Montana boy and the fastest way home is a straight line,”
While the execution was flawed I admire the determination.
That line cracked me up!
FYI, you’re talking to someone who’s family has everything from podunk county jailers to state prison wardens. There is no relaxing of the perimeter at night. Jails don’t get to pick and choose who the cops can book each day.
Yeah, just like Epstein’s live body was accounted for all night long. It was lights out so all the good little inmates were tucked in snugly and dreaming of sugar plums right after reading them bedtime stories.
Where do you think the guys in a super max prison were held all those months and years while waiting to be tried and convicted?
Schools and prisons are usually built on land that is either not wanted by housing developers or is donated. It’s public land. There’s a reason why jails, government offices and schools are often built near each other.
Yes. I think they would. Utah State Prison is right next to a public school.
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