No smile from Tyrone Kennedy ,
Posted on 11/26/2024 10:03:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
Questions are being raised after a convicted murderer was caught with a loaded gun inside the Harris County Jail on Tuesday morning.
The video above is from ABC13's 24/7 livestream.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office said jailers at the 1200 Baker Street facility discovered the gun hidden inside a seat cushion on inmate Tyrone King's wheelchair after getting an anonymous tip.
"It's something that amazes and astounds me and ought to make us go, 'Come on now,'" legal analyst Brian Wice said.
King was serving time in prison for a 1995 murder conviction but was later paroled. He was arrested and booked into jail on Oct. 23 for violating his parole terms.
It's unclear how King obtained the gun.
"In four-and-half decades doing what I've done as a criminal defense attorney, this is an outlier. It's a black swan. I've never heard of anything quite like this," Wice said.
A former jailer told Eyewitness News that most inmates' wheelchairs are jail-issued and that inmates need special permission to have personal ones like King's.
Wheelchairs are usually taken apart and searched before being allowed into the jail, but it's unclear if that happened in this case.
"Obviously, there's something radically wrong with the quality control process at the Harris County Jail," Wice said.
The sheriff's office hasn't said whether it believes King smuggled the gun in at the time of his booking or if someone else smuggled it in for him.
"I'm gonna think that the trail doesn't begin and end with this inmate. I think that somebody had to have a hand in this, and whether it's a civilian, whether it's a jailer, whether it's the tooth fairy, nobody knows at this point," Wice said.
Birthday cake?
>> “In four-and-half decades doing what I’ve done as a criminal defense attorney, this is an outlier. It’s a black swan. I’ve never heard of anything quite like this,” Wice said.
“BLACK Swan”. HAhahaha! Bullshit. It’s a BLM pattern. And it’s condoned by a cowed, complacent “government”.
Nuke it.
No smile from Tyrone Kennedy ,
Law enforcement in Houston used to be corrupt and brutal and the jails reflected that, but things may be different now days.
MSN has him as Kennedy and the other article says King 🤔
Insider connection...”friend of a friend”.
I'm gonna have to go with "tooth fairy".. LOL
It’s quite obvious some convict hide it up his ass, you know like the watch was stuck up somebody’s rectum during the war and it was then given to his child or his grandchild. Glad it didn’t go off
Article seems to say it was smuggled. I’d say it’s more likely a crooked jailer turned a blind eye.
In my state introduction of contraband into a secure facility is a 5 year felony, to be served consecutively.
CC
A crooked jailer or a whole bunch of pathetic ones.
CC
A few lawyers have been busted for carrying drugs into the jail lately in Harris County (Houston.) Looks like maybe they have been carrying firearms also.
Spend all that time, money and effort to make it through law school and throw it away transporting contraband. I hope it was worth it.
Wonder which official will be charged or it could another cocaine in the white house incident where they don’t know who did it.
Come on now, guns are dangerous and sneaky too- they up and shoot people,for no good reason, and they make their way into the hands of baddies without anyone knowing how- must ban all guns! /s
“Tyrone” lives up to the stereotype.
I used to work down the street from our metro jail. The corrections officers made it look like a DIE make work project. Most of the COs were the stereotypical ghettopotamis. I think a lot of the inmates were relatives of the COs.
Prison Cops can be bribed to bring in pretty much anything.
I know a guy that spent 20 years in prison, and that was one of the first things he told me.
This is crazy. But I’m also wondering exactly how much use an inmate can get from having a gun in an American prison.
If you use it to intimidate anyone, you get caught, like in this case. If a gun is discharged in a prison, it would be impossible to hide it after.
You could maybe use it once if you are not caught first, and then you would be caught and charged with additional crimes.
I don’t think it would be enough firepower to escape. Maybe a guy like this could use it to escape if he was being transported back and forth to a medical facility. But how would he get away? Sounds like a movie premise.
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