'He din't do it, you gotsta led heem go NOW! - Supreem Kort'

by Nicole Billard | June 14, 2007 at 09:48 am
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Tommy Lee Barca was only following a precedent when he let Paris go... okay, so maybe he didn't read the back story...


HICKMAN, Kentucky (AP) - Officials mistakenly released a prisoner from a Kentucky facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered him freed, and it took them nearly two weeks to realize it.

The fax contained grammatical errors, was not typed on letterhead and was sent from a local grocery store. The fax falsely claimed that the Kentucky Supreme Court "demanded" Timothy Rouse be released.

Rouse, 19, is charged with beating an elderly man and was at the Kentucky Correctional & Psychiatric Center in La Grange for a mental evaluation. He was released April 6 after officials received the fake court order.

Lexington police arrested Rouse at his mother's home Thursday evening.

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