Alabama: Clarke County Jail guard Larissa Thompson was arrested on December 5, 2024, for plotting to smuggle drugs into the lockup, the Thomasville Times reported. An investigation by state law enforcement, the office of County Sheriff DeWayne Smith, and Jackson Police uncovered evidence that Thompson planned to bring controlled substances into the jail. She was arrested before she could do so and charged with criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of a controlled substance. Seized drugs are now evidence in the case. Admitting that the County “can’t pay a corrupt officer what some inmates can afford to pay,” Sheriff Smith said that “we can make the officer an inmate.”

Alabama: State Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Alesia Jarrett, 22, was arrested for drug smuggling and trafficking on December 3, 2024, when she was found with 250 grams of methamphetamine at Elmore Correctional Facility. WFSA in Montgomery reported that Jarrett had worked for DOC since October 2021 and resigned after her arrest. She was booked into Elmore County Detention Facility on a $1.5 million bond on charges of conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine, use of position for personal gain and promoting prison contraband.

Arkansas: Following a three-week investigation by the Tri-County Drug Task Force and the Criminal Investigation Division of the office of Jefferson County Sheriff Lafayette Woods, Jr., two guards at the County’s Dub Brassell Adult Detention Center were arrested in November 2024 for smuggling contraband into the lockup. KATV in Little Rock reported that Zhane Johnson was arrested on November 22, 2024, less than a week after Miakia Ellis’ arrest on November 16, 2024, when she was found with 115 grams of marijuana, smoking papers, lighters, a phone charger and cellphones. Both were charged with criminal conspiracy and criminal use of a communication device.

California: On December 20, 2024, a federal grand jury indicted former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) guard Raquel Mosqueda, 36, along with prisoner Jimmie L. Carter, 44, for assaulting another prisoner at California State Prison-Corcoran. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California said the indictment alleges that Mosqueda allowed Carter and others to enter the victim’s cell and attack him on April 20, 2022, resulting in bodily harm. For violating the victim’s civil rights, they face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine; Mosqueda faces an additional charge of failure to protect the victim that could earn her an additional 10 years if convicted.

California: Stephanie Diane Brinson, 62, died while visiting her unnamed husband incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison on November 13, 2024, KCRA in Sacramento reported. Brinson passed out in the family visitation unit, a private, apartment-like facility for contact visits. Her husband alerted guards, who performed lifesaving measures until paramedics arrived, and Brinson was pronounced dead. CDCR said it was waiting on the Amador County Coroner to determine the cause of death.

California: On November 4, 2024, a state court was asked to declare the “actual innocence” of former state prisoner Humberto Duran, 50, who was paroled in January 2023 after serving nearly three decades for the fatal shooting of Alberto Gonzalez. The Los Angeles Times reported that Duran was convicted of the December 1993 killing based on the testimony of eyewitness Monica Rivera, who recanted it in 2010. She said it had been coerced from her by cops. The case was picked up in 2017 by attorneys Megan Baca and Arianna Price of the California Western School of Law Innocence and Justice Clinic; they eventually helped secure Duran’s parole. During his imprisonment Duran “survived riots, fights and years in solitary confinement,” they said, during which he was shot, stabbed and beaten; he also had to get a permanent catheter, developed a seizure disorder and began using a wheelchair. Though not addressing the attorneys’ claims of police misconduct, a state court overturned his conviction in October 2024, and prosecutors declined to retry the case. A declaration of actual innocence will pave the way for Duran to receive financial compensation for his years of wrongful imprisonment, the attorneys said.

California: Former San Mateo County jail guard Joel Olazabal Gudino, 31, was set for sentencing on December 6, 2024, for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl, according to KRON San Francisco. He was convicted by a jury on March 11, 2024, of forcible lewd acts on a child and contacting a minor to solicit a lewd act. He was awaiting sentencing at the jail where he worked from 2016 until his 2019 arrest, after the victim, who is also a family friend and neighbor, came forward claiming he molested her many times over a span of three years starting when she was only eight years old. San Mateo police were able to corroborate the accusations with evidence from a monitored phone call.

Connecticut: Connecticut Public Radio reported on December 24, 2024, that three state prison guards charged with using excessive force against a compliant Garner Correctional Institution prisoner were allowed to enroll in a pretrial diversionary program. Danbury Superior Court Judge Charles M. Stango agreed to dismiss the misdemeanor charges against two of them, Patrick McGoldrick and Joshua Johnson, upon their successful completion of six months of probation and 25 hours of community service; charges against the third, Anthony Marlak, will be dismissed after two years of probation and 100 community service hours. The unnamed victim consented to the resolution of the charges, which were levied in December 2023 for an incident three months earlier; after that, all three guards were placed on leave. The state DOC reinstated Johnson in June 2024, but Goldrick no longer works for the prison system. Following his 2021 firing for an anti-Muslim Facebook post, Marlak retired in April 2024 after successfully winning reinstatement, as PLN reported. [See PLN, Feb. 2024, p.62.]

Connecticut: Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoner Xiaoqin Yan, 30, a Chinese national serving 8-1/2 years for arson and firearm possession by an illegal alien, briefly escaped from the low-security Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury on December 10, 2024. WVIT in New Britain reported that a security device activated at 7 p.m., indicating an escape. Local police apprehended Yan within 45 minutes and returned her to custody. She was convicted in federal court for the Middle District of Alabama of setting fire to Montgomery’s First Baptist Church in September 2021, when surveillance footage showed her carrying duffel bags and igniting gasoline containers inside the church, resulting in significant damage. At the time, she had overstayed her visa and reportedly exhibited “odd behavior” during encounters with church staff.

Florida: Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) Corrections Sgt. Donald Boston, a 17-year veteran guard at the combined city-county jail, was arrested on December 28, 2024, for first-degree misdemeanor domestic battery. WFOX in Jacksonville reported that Boston allegedly grabbed and caused a family member to fall during a “domestic incident.” Following the arrest, he was placed on administrative leave. He was the 14th JSO employee arrested in 2024.

Florida: According to WCJB in Gainesville, an unnamed state DOC guard at Cross City Correctional Institution was hospitalized on December 3, 2024, after being stabbed with a makeshift knife by prisoner Kevin Rolle, 43. Other staffers subdued the prisoner, whose claims of self-defense were contradicted by surveillance video, DOC said. He was transferred to Florida State Prison in Raiford and charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, possession of contraband and resisting an officer with violence.

Florida: BOP prisoner Brandon Ejae Elliot, 34, was charged with second-degree murder on November 26, 2024, for the alleged fatal stabbing of his unnamed cellmate at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Coleman in December 2022. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, the incident occurred during a prison lockdown, when other prisoners reported hearing a struggle from Elliot’s cell, and prison staff discovered the unresponsive cellmate with multiple stab wounds. Scratches found on Elliot indicated the victim tried to fight off the attack. A fellow prisoner told investigators that Elliot talked afterward through an air vent about the killing. Elliot now faces a potential life sentence.

Germany: A scandal erupted at a prison in Schleswig-Holstein on October 9, 2024, when a teenage prisoner scheduled for release the next day was accused of seducing two prison officials. According to the Daily Mail, 17-year-old repeat offender “Ahmad J.” allegedly had sexual relationships with both a prison psychologist, “Marie B.,” 31, and a department head, “Inga T.,” 27. Neither apparently knew that the other had fallen in love with the young Iraqi refugee, so both allegedly smuggled contraband into his cell and attempted to secure his early release. They were suspended after an investigation by a corruption task force, and both now face potential criminal charges. The prisoner faces bribery charges, too, though his attorney, Nicolai Preuss, told Bild Zeitung that he does not think “sexual intercourse with one or more women” at the prison, Justizvollzugsanstalt Kiel, should be grounds for such a charge.

Massachusetts: Two guards at Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Norfolk were hospitalized for smoke inhalation after a fire erupted on December 1, 2024. WWLP in Springfield reported that both were treated and returned to work the same night. Firefighters from nearby towns extinguished the blaze within an hour, and the cause remains under investigation. No other staff or prisoners required medical attention, according to Scott Croteau of the state DOC.

Michigan: Kristine I. Campau, 35, was sentenced on December 23, 2024, for providing a fatal dose of drugs to Jessica L. Ayers, her cellmate at Bay County Jail. Michigan Live reported that Campau pleaded guilty to manslaughter and possession of contraband, receiving concurrent prison sentences of five to 15 years and 40 months to five years. Ayers was found unresponsive in her cell on October 28, 2023, two days after Campau was booked into the lockup on several warrants. Campau had the drugs hidden inside her body when she arrived at the jail, Sheriff Troy R. Cunningham said, and a routine search did not reveal them. Autopsy results showed that Ayers died of fentanyl intoxication, with 26 nanograms of the substance in her blood. The mother of four had several convictions before her latest incarceration for stabbing two people.

Michigan: BOP prisoner David Verner, 43, was charged on December 19, 2024, with making threatening communications and stalking an unnamed fellow prisoner at FCI-Milan. Advance Local Media reported that he is also charged with possession of a contraband cellphone, which he allegedly used to send the victim’s non-incarcerated family members demands to repay a $3,500 debt run up prior to incarceration. They in turn asked Verner to send a photo of himself, which he did, and they forwarded it to the FBI upon receipt—along with additional messages he sent making sexual threats and demanding lewd photos from them. The prisoner victim was then placed in protective custody, and federal prosecutors filed charges against Verner. See: United States v. Verner, USDC (E.D. Mich.), Case No. 2:24-mj-30540.

Michigan: Former Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Ronald Leggitt pleaded guilty on November 26, 2024, to misconduct in office and aggravated assault after repeatedly pepper-spraying a restrained detainee at the county jail. According to Advance Local Media, the incident occurred in December 2021, while detainee Sabrina Cain was experiencing a mental health crisis. Leggitt was supervising jail operations when he allegedly assaulted her with pepper spray six times over an 80-minute period, including five times while she was secured in a restraint chair. As part of his plea deal, Leggitt surrendered his police officer certification. His sentencing was in January 2025, and he faced up to five years in prison. A civil rights claim was filed by Cain against Leggitt and the County in federal court for the Western District of Michigan on November 24, 2024; she is represented by attorney Carette-Lynn Reynolds of Ven Johnson Law PLC in Detroit. See: Cain v. Leggitt, USDC (W.D. Mich.), Case No. 1:24-cv-01242.

Michigan: State DOC guard Andre Taylor, 59, was arrested on January 12, 2025, after tipped-off investigators from the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team found him trying to smuggle drugs into Kinross Correctional Facility, where he was on temporary work assignment. WMNU in Marquette reported that a second suspect, Edward King, 57, was also arrested. The contraband recovered included 15 sheets of suspected “K2” paper, 50 strips of A12 suboxone, 514 strips of N8 suboxone, 74 grams of marijuana wax and 62 grams of methamphetamine. The haul was valued at $443,000. Authorities also seized $4,592 in cash from Taylor, which they suspected was a payment he had received in the scheme.

Mississippi: The Clark County Democrat reported that state prisoner Drew Johnson, 33, was recaptured on Christmas Day 2024, less than 24 hours after escaping from South Mississippi Correctional Institution (SMCI). The state DOC had warned that Johnson was “desperate and very dangerous.” He was sentenced to life in prison in 2022 for a Rankin County murder. He also had a 2016 conviction for a stabbing death in Tennessee and the attempted murder of a fellow prisoner while awaiting trial in Mississippi. In fleeing SMCI, Johnson was cut by razor wire and found “sitting Indian-style beside the road,” said Greene County Sheriff’s Dep. Brad Warwick, who added: “I think he was pretty much ready to go back to jail.”

New Jersey: The New Jersey Monitor reported that former state DOC guard Giuseppe Mandara, 55, pleaded guilty on December 3, 2024, to aggravated assault in the 2019 beating of Darrell Smith, 50, a resident in the civil commitment unit of the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Woodbridge. Smith was left in solitary confinement for four days after the beating and died of a stroke. The assault followed a dispute over food items that he allegedly took from the prison kitchen: peanut butter, bananas and sugar. Mandara’s attorney, Stuart Alterman, pointed out that the items Smith took are commonly used to make prison alcohol. Mandara, a 20-year DOC veteran, agreed to resign and is barred from future public employment by his plea deal, under which prosecutors will recommend a four-year prison term at his January 2025 sentencing. But Alterman expects probation, citing a presumption of non-incarceration for first-time offenders convicted of third-degree crimes. A lawsuit filed by Smith’s family alleged that Mandara and other guards subjected him to homophobic taunts and brutally attacked him twice, withholding critical medical care. The lawsuit also claims they dragged Smith to surveillance blind spots, where they beat him and left him unresponsive. Plaintiff is represented by attorney Tracey C. Hinson of Hinson Snipes LLP in Princeton. See: McNair v. State of N.J, USDC (D.N.J.), Case No. 2:21-cv-01291.

North Carolina: WRAL in Raleigh reported that accused murderer Darrius Tyson, identified as North Carolina’s highest-ranking member of the Bloods gang, allegedly ran a drug trafficking operation from his cell at Durham County Jail—where he also impregnated two jail staffers. At a November 26, 2024, bond hearing, prosecutors revealed that former guard Sgt. Jade Robertson and contracted nurse Lerin Burnette were charged with felony sexual relations with Tyson; another staffer, now ex-guard Sgt. Nicole Locke, was charged with providing him a cellphone. Tyson’s attorney, Daniel Meier, argued that Tyson was the victim of the staffers’ sexual predations, since detainees cannot legally consent to sex with them. But Tyson was denied bond at the hearing and will remain in custody. Prosecutors allege he coordinated drug deals using a contraband cellphone, earning him a transfer to Central Prison in Raleigh. He is charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy in the 2022 disappearance of Shawn Burton, with a trial set for February 2025. Tyson previously served more than 10 years for a 2010 Durham murder, but the conviction was overturned in 2020 because of prosecutorial misconduct.

North Carolina: Former BOP guard Lt. Daniel Mitchell pleaded guilty in December 2024 to instructing a fellow guard to physically assault an unnamed prisoner at FCI-Butner in December 2021. AP News reported that Mitchell directed the unnamed fellow guard to “teach [the prisoner] a lesson” after he allegedly exposed himself and engaged in a sexual act in front of a female guard. Court records reveal that Mitchell ordered the guard to avoid striking the prisoner’s face but otherwise approved the use of physical punishment. The prisoner was then taken to another cell and beaten until other guards intervened. The assault left the prisoner with a worsened preexisting back condition and other medical complications. Mitchell faces up to 10 years in prison, and his sentencing is scheduled for March 2025.

Ohio: David Pearson, a former state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) operations commander, was sentenced for negligent homicide to the maximum six months in jail and fined $1,000 on December 26, 2024, in the fatal shooting of Lt. Rodney Osborne during a training exercise. The sentence was the result of a plea deal. According to WBNS in Columbus, the incident occurred in April 2024 when Pearson, attempting to assist Osborne with a firearm-handling drill, accidentally fired a live round and killed his colleague. Pearson claimed he believed his weapon was loaded with blanks. He originally pleaded not guilty but changed his plea to guilty on December 9, 2024. His termination from DRC was effective in September 2024.

Ohio: The Ohio State Patrol identified Rashawn Cannon, 27, a prisoner serving time for felonious assault, as the suspect behind the murder of guard Andrew Lansing at Ross Correctional Institution (RCI) on Christmas Day 2024. WSYX in Columbus reported that Cannon had been denied early release despite participating in 88 rehabilitation programs. He was serving a minimum eight-year sentence for assaulting a woman with a handgun and breaking her nose; the attack also loosened her teeth and left a large gash in her lip. Before the deadly assault on Lansing, Cannon was set to be released in 2030. Lansing began working as a guard at RCI in 1994.

Oklahoma: KOKH in Oklahoma City reported that five current and former Garvin County Jail (GCJ) guards and a jail nurse were federally indicted on December 6, 2024, for violating the civil rights of a detainee who was fatally assaulted by fellow detainees at the lockup in August 2023. According to the indictment filed in federal court for the Western District of Oklahoma, guard Sgt. Jennifer Baxter, along with former guards Alesha Danielle Ingram and Vincent Matthews and former nurse Lynnsee Noel, were insufficiently concerned by the physical harm that the detainee suffered in the assault. Along with guards Sgt. Melisa Melton and Paula Kelley, they then let the detainee die on their watch. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of life in prison. See: United States v. Baxter, USDC (W.D. Okla.), Case No. 5:24-cr-00516.

Oregon: State DOC guard Nicholas T. Alexander, 45, fatally shot his daughter, Larissa Alexander, 16, before turning the gun and killing himself at their home on December 11, 2024. Oregon Live reported that Washington County Sheriff’s deputies discovered their bodies while responding to a welfare check, which was requested after the teenager did not respond to messages. The elder Alexander started with DOC in 2015 at Oregon State Penitentiary before transferring to Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. He had been on leave since October 4, 2024. On the Monday before the murder-suicide, he was arrested on allegations of driving under the influence of intoxicants, according to County Dep. David Huey.

Pennsylvania: In a 10-page opinion issued on December 24, 2024, the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld the prison sentence of Crystal Inez Kelly, a former Luzerne County Prison detainee convicted of assaulting a guard in 2020. According to the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Kelly was incarcerated on child endangerment charges at the time, when she violently resisted being placed in restraints. That resulted in severe injuries to an unnamed guard, necessitating amputation of their left hand. After she was sentenced to prison for eight-and-a-half to 25 years, Kelly appealed, arguing that the sentence was excessive and that the trial court erred in denying her request for a continuance to obtain expert medical testimony. However, the Superior Court found no merit in her claims and upheld the sentence. Judge David W. Lupas structured Kelly’s sentence for the assault conviction to begin once she completes a one-to-two-year sentence for her conviction on the child endangerment charge, which was earned when she left her then-three-year-old son unsupervised for nearly eight hours. See: Commonwealth v. Kelly, 2024 Pa. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2998 (Dec. 3, 2024).

Pennsylvania: According to Trib Total Media, Allegheny County paid $1.5 million to settle a suit filed by former County jail guard Jeffrey Kengerski, who claimed he was fired in retaliation for reporting racist comments by a supervisor. Kengerski alleged that Maj. Robyn McCall referred to his biracial relative as “a monkey” and sent messages with offensive racial memes. After reporting that, Kengerski faced workplace harassment and was allegedly terminated for mishandling a sexual harassment complaint. A jury agreed that the motive was retaliatory, awarding him $930,528 in damages and recovered wages, with additional legal fees increasing the total. The County appealed, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the verdict on October 7, 2024. See: Kengerski v. Harper, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 25268 (3d Cir.).The parties then proceeded to reach their settlement agreement. McCall retired in 2015, and Kengerski is now a guard (ranked as a Major) at Butler County Prison. He was represented by attorney Margaret S. Coleman of O’Brien, Coleman & Wright in Pittsburgh. See: Kengerski v. Harper, USDC (W.D. Penn.), Case No. 2:17-cv-01048.

Pennsylvania: When Shaurn Thomas was exonerated of a murder conviction and released from state prison in 2017, he had spent 24 years wrongfully incarcerated, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Jan. 2018, p.63.] He later collected a $4.1 million payout. But the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that he’s now facing another prison sentence after pleading guilty to murder on December 5, 2024. Thomas, 50, admitted to killing Akeem Edwards, 38, over a $1,200 drug debt. The two were introduced by the sister of another exonerated prisoner whom Thomas met at an event for people wrongfully imprisoned. The two subsequently made a deal in which Edwards allegedly took cocaine to sell for Thomas but never paid for it, leading to the fatal retribution.

Tennessee: Former Maury County Jail guard James Stewart Justice, a/k/a James Stewart Thomas, was resentenced on December 19, 2024, to 60 months in federal prison and two years of supervised release for falsifying a report in order to obstruct a federal civil rights investigation into his sexual involvement with a detainee. As PLN reported, Justice was originally sentenced to a 15-month term in March 2024, following his conviction for filing a report falsely claiming that supervisors advised him not to report sexual advances that he claimed were made by the detainee while he was guarding her at a hospital; in reality, he had initiated sex with her and later admitted to continuing a sexual relationship after her release from the jail. [See: PLN, May 2024, p.63.] When the federal court for the Middle District of Tennessee handed down the initial sentence over the objection of government prosecutors, they turned to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which vacated the sentence and remanded the case on October 10, 2024, leading to Justice’s resentencing. See: United States v. Justice, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 25762 (6th Cir.); and USDC (M.D. Tenn.), Case No. 1:22-cr-00006.

Texas:WFAA in Dallas reported that Isaiah Bias, 28, a guard at Wayne McCollum Detention Center in Ellis County, was brutally murdered at the lockup on December 16, 2024. Detainee Arron Semeion Thompson, 45, was charged with the killing. Thompson, who was confined to his single-man cell for 23 hours a day, had just finished his daily one-hour break and was being escorted back to his cell. He was arrested in early November 2024 on three counts of assaulting a peace officer/judge, as well as resisting arrest, evading arrest with a prior conviction and public intoxication. He had also spent eight years in state prison on a prior conviction. It was unclear why he had been sanctioned with solitary confinement. Surveillance video showed he first punched Bias in the back of the head and took him to the ground. Thompson then choked the guard and beat Bias’ head with his fist, knee and foot. Bond was set at $2 million, and the Texas Rangers are investigating. County Sheriff Brad Norman vowed to encourage prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

Virginia: Lakeia Shepperd, 39, was indicted on federal charges on November 11, 2024, for allegedly appropriating personal information from individuals incarcerated in state prisons in a scheme to defraud the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) of over $360,000. According to WAVY in Portsmouth, Shepperd ran the scam from April to June 2020 under various aliases—including Lakeia Miles, Lakeia Williams and Chris Lover—exploiting disruptions that overwhelmed VEC during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the indictment filed in federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia, she and an unnamed accomplice filed 11 fraudulent unemployment claims using identities taken from prisoners held in state DOC lockups in Big Stone Gap, Craigsville, Dilwyn and Sussex County. VEC approved over $395,000 in payouts, issued via prepaid debit cards or direct deposits; the agency caught the fraud by November 2020 and recovered $35,000, leaving a net loss of $360,000. The indictment alleges that at least some of the prisoners conspired with Shepperd, receiving prison account credits in return ranging from $250 to $3,000—far below what she allegedly pocketed. Shepperd denied the allegations and was freed on bond. Her trial on conspiracy, identity theft and mail fraud charges is scheduled for April 2025. See: United States v. Shepperd, USDC (E.D. Va.), Case No. 4:24-cr-00080.

Washington: Former Pierce County Jail guard Cameron Boucher, 22, was charged with vehicular assault on January 2, 2025, after allegedly running over his ex-girlfriend’s head with his truck in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. According to KING in Seattle, the violence erupted outside a Tacoma bar, where witnesses observed the couple arguing. According to court documents, the woman fell for unknown reasons just outside the vehicle that Boucher was driving, and he allegedly backed over her head as she lay on the ground, dragging her face across the pavement. Witnesses reported hearing her “screaming very loud” and stated they believed the off-duty guard knew that she was still under his vehicle. Boucher failed a field sobriety test, blowing double the state’s legal alcohol limit. The woman sustained multiple facial fractures and suffered “substantial bodily harm.” Since he was just hired to work for former County Sheriff Ed Troyer in August 2024, Boucher was still on probationary employment, and newly elected Sheriff Keith Swank terminated the guard following the incident. Boucher pleaded not guilty and was released on $75,000 bail.

Zambia: A drunken police detective unlocked jail cells and released 13 detainees from Leonard Cheelo Police Post on New Year’s Eve 2024, allowing them to “cross over into the New Year,” BBC News reported, quoting the national Police Service. Detective Inspector Titus Phiri, who was off-duty, forcibly seized keys from constable Serah Ban to free the detainees. Out of 15 suspects in custody at the time, only two remained afterward. Following the incident, Phiri fled the scene, but he was later arrested. All 13 detainees remained at large, however.  

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