Posted on 10/15/2013 8:07:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police are trying to figure out how the hell they lost track of a 20-year-old female prisoner who wiggled her way out of her handcuffs and casually walked out of the Police Department over the weekend.
The bizarre incident happened at about 5:40 p.m. on Sunday when the suspect was brought into the Northern Police Station for questioning about a car burglary. However, the suspect, later identified as Sonya Espinoza, lied to the cops about her identity and then declined to be interviewed. After the cops learned her real name, they also learned she had a no-bail warrant and was on probation.
Police handcuffed her and seated her on a bench nearby.
But, according to Shyy, sometime around 7:40 p.m. Espinoza went missing. The prisoner-turned-escape artist had used a metal shim to set herself free. Unrestrained, the suspect stood up and walked out of the east door of the police station to Fillmore Street.
Police combed the station looking for Espinoza but didn't find her.
Her elbow room didn't last long; police finally tracked her down the following day on the 200 block of Van Ness where she was arrested on suspicion of escaping from custody. She was hauled back to jail -- and this time, the handcuffs stayed on.
And we trust those police officers with guns! What a bunch of mucking forons!
In San Francisco the police are generally busy humping each other in the showers. Easy to understand how she slipped away.
all the holding cells were occupied???
I was a correctional officer in a juvenile Max security facility....we had several kids that, even if you applied cuffs correctly, could slip them and hand them to you....they loved it!!!
I had a friend that many years ago was in the station and handcuffed to the bench, he said it stressed him all to heck, not the part about sitting on the bench handcuffed to it in the Police Station, but the part about him still having a pistol hidden on him that they had missed in the search, and that he had neglected to mention to them.
Same thing. I had one girl about age 15 that we had to keep in leg irons for any kind of transport. She actually escaped from a pair of "Juvie" cuffs in about 15 seconds.
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