Alabama authorities are trying to find a corrections officer and inmate who by no means made it to court

Lacking Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White broke protocol when she escorted inmate Casey White from jail this morning to apparently take him to the courthouse in Lauderdale County, mentioned Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton. The inmate and the corrections officer should not related.

Authorities stated Casey White was being held on capital murder costs and two sworn deputies ought to have been with him always, together with throughout transportation to courtroom.

Vicki White coordinates all transports from the detention heart to court docket and therefore knew the protocol, the sheriff added.

Singleton said that though Casey White was supposedly being transported for a psychological well being evaluation on the courthouse, they've since realized that no such evaluation or other court docket listening to for him was scheduled for Friday.

"Knowing the inmate, I believe she's in danger regardless of the circumstances... He was in jail for capital homicide, and he had nothing to lose," Singleton stated.

Authorities are actually all prospects of what happened, together with if the corrections officer helped Casey White escape.

"Whether or not she assisted him or not, we don't know, and we won't address that until we've absolute proof that that's what happened. We're assuming at this level that she was taken towards her will, until we can absolutely show otherwise," Singleton added.

Authorities said they are still looking and investigating any interaction between the corrections officer and Casey White, in addition to any phone calls he had acquired.

When Vicki White escorted Casey White out of the jail, she instructed the guard she was going to drop him off at the court after which go seek medical attention as a result of she wasn't feeling nicely.

The sheriff stated Casey White was never dropped off at court and Vicki White didn't make it to the place where she said she was going to hunt medical consideration.

Authorities didn't understand they had been lacking until a number of hours later.

Her car, a 2013 Ford Taurus patrol car, was first spotted in a shopping center parking lot around 11 a.m. by somebody who was on a lunch break, Singleton mentioned.

Round 3:30 p.m., officers on the jail were concerned and tried to succeed in her, however her cellphone kept going straight to voicemail. They then realized Casey White had not been returned to the jail.

Vicki White has been with the department for 25 years and is eligible for retirement -- which she has talked about doing in the previous few months, Singleton added.

"All precautions had been in place. The question now we have for Director White is why she violated coverage," Singleton stated.

Casey White is 6'9" tall is being thought of armed and dangerous. Vicki White "was armed with a 9 mm handgun, which suggests we're assuming he is armed," Singleton added.