What happened to the rest of the 164 people Hillsborough freed from jail?

Tampa Bay Times ^ | April 20, 2020 | Dan Sullivan

[4Runner]

Then there is Joseph Williams, who made headlines this week. The 26-year-old had been held for six days on a heroin possession charge. With bail set at $2,500, a deposit of just $250 would have secured a bond and set him free. Evidently, the amount was too much.

When he did walk out as one of the 164 [freed by Chronister and Ficarrotta] he spoke with the media.

“I feel wonderful,” he told a reporter from Spectrum Bay News 9.

The next night, a crowd of more than a dozen gathered on Ash Avenue in Progress Village. Amid the flagrant affront to social distancing guidelines, gunfire erupted. Christopher Striker, 28, was mortally wounded.

A four-week investigation culminated in Williams’ re-arrest Wednesday. This time, the charge was second-degree murder, no bail.

As nationwide headlines proclaimed a jail inmate released because of COVID-19 had gone on to commit murder, Chronister endured a wave of criticism.

[4Runner]

These two get kid glove treatment by the local enemedia. Judge Ficarrotta is a Jeb Bush Circuit Court appointee reelected several times. Sheriff Chronister is connected by marriage to a very big Florida money bag having a net worth of $7 billion who loves cheap foreign labor for his construction projects. So poor Chad needed a civil service taxpayer-funded job. So dumb-a$$ Hillsborough County voters too lazy to do any research elected him Sheriff sight unseen. So we have had zero law enforcement presence in Hillsborough County ever since,AND NOW WE HAVE THIS.

[frank ballenger]

Thanks for the local information that the rest of us do not get.

Sounds like Dems and GOP are guilty-—as is true often.

[John Milner]

The Tampa Bay Times, I’m sure, prints stories asking “What about the millions of legal law abiding gun owners?” every time there’s a wacko shooting spree... NOT!!!

[Redwood71]

“AND NOW WE HAVE THIS.”

Welcome to San Francisco.

rwood

[dirtymac]

But they will count the murdered victim as a results of CV-19, thereby boosting the death count.
Another $13,000 cha-ching

[misantrope]

This sheriff is the same clown that was interviewed for the TMZ/FOX “Tigerking” special a week ago. He came off looking like an idiot.