Posted on 10/21/2009 6:29:46 PM PDT by george76
A simple ... search of Michal Preclik's name turns up an Interpol wanted poster from his native Czech Republic. So where was he arrested? In Nebraska's maximum-security prison, where he was not an inmate, but a guard.
Preclik had worked at the prison for a year and his arrest came just two months after officials at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution promoted the 32-year-old to corporal. Prison officials learned last month that he was wanted on suspicion of drug and fraud crimes.
"This is just unbelievable that the state of Nebraska is hiring international criminals," said state Sen. Heath Mello of Omaha. "Who's minding the store?"
The Department of Correctional Services is reviewing its hiring practices, spokeswoman Dawn Renee Smith said.
Smith said she wasn't aware of any internal investigations because of Preclik's situation.
The Corrections Department did a background check on Preclik before hiring him, like it does on all potential hires, she said. But a national database that includes criminal records and warrants, the National Criminal Information Center, did not reveal any warrants for his arrest, Smith said.
a second NCIC check was done Oct. 14, 2008, the same day Preclik's employment with the prison officially began.
"No warrant showed up at that time either," Smith said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Tim Counts declined to speak about Preclik's former or current immigration status other than to say he has been charged with violating U.S. immigration laws.
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What a sieve we have become....
>> “This is just unbelievable that the state of Nebraska is hiring international criminals,”
Reprehensible, maybe.
But there is NO form of government incompetence or negligence that is “unbelievable”.
Incompetence and negligence (and corruption) is simply What Government Does Best.
Wow, who would have thought of looking there?
IRONY.....PING!!!
Uh-Oh. Someone’s face is red.
Obviously not the State or Federal Government.
Years ago I sat in a courtroom and listened to a judge ask an escapee why he was caught trying to sneak back into the prison.
Apparently the escapee saw an opportunity to walk away and did. Unfortunately he didn’t think about taking a coat with him in the 10 degree Michigan winter and his family wouldn’t wire him money for a bus ticket.
That is such a sad story. I’m actually feeling sympathy for someone that inept, neglected by his family, un self sufficient and unambitious.
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