OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – An Oklahoma County Jail inmate who was launched by mistake in April is again in jail after turning himself in Sunday.
“We already had checks and balances, the issue was we now have people doing a job and people will err,” Jessica Brown, communications director for the Oklahoma County Jail, stated.
The inmate is recognized as 37-year-old Reimundo Cuevas.
In April, he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for fees of drug trafficking, conspiracy to commit a felony, and unlawful use of a telephone.
He was being held on the jail earlier than being taken to jail.
9 days later, his file went by the jail’s releasing space, and no one caught the error.
“It went by our releasing space, and was seen by a number of completely different units of eyes, apparently nobody caught the truth that he was not being launched, that he was imagined to be detained and going to DOC,” Brown stated.
Final week, a tipster advised the jail he wasn’t imagined to have been launched.
“We checked into it, discovered that was correct, so we started what we now have to do to attempt to get somebody again in our custody,” Brown stated.
A warrant was filed for his arrest, however on Sunday, he turned himself again in.
Brown says Cuevas’ youngster requested him to show himself in as a result of they did not need him to be a fugitive from justice.
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She additionally says workers members have been utilizing a brand new database on the time, which can have contributed to the problem.
“We hope that studying curve has now gone over,” she stated. “We will take this chance to make sure that our checks and balances are doing what they’re imagined to be doing, they failed us this time. We have now to return, learn the way this occurred, and be certain that it by no means occurs once more. We are going to do this.”
