Alabama authorities are looking for a corrections officer and inmate who by no means made it to court docket

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, said Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton. The inmate and the corrections officer aren't related.

Authorities said Casey White was being held on capital murder fees and two sworn deputies ought to have been with him at all times, together with during transportation to courtroom.

Vicki White coordinates all transports from the detention middle to court and due to this fact knew the protocol, the sheriff added.

Singleton mentioned that though Casey White was supposedly being transported for a mental well being evaluation at the courthouse, they have since discovered that no such evaluation or different courtroom hearing for him was scheduled for Friday.

"Figuring out the inmate, I believe she's in danger whatever the circumstances... He was in jail for capital murder, and he had nothing to lose," Singleton stated.

Authorities are actually looking at all potentialities of what happened, including if the corrections officer helped Casey White escape.

"Whether she assisted him or not, we don't know, and we can't deal with that until we've got absolute proof that that is what happened. We're assuming at this point that she was taken in opposition to her will, except we will absolutely prove otherwise," Singleton added.

Authorities said they're nonetheless looking and investigating any interplay 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 informed the guard she was going to drop him off on the courtroom and then go seek medical attention as a result of she wasn't feeling nicely.

The sheriff stated Casey White was by no means dropped off at courtroom and Vicki White didn't make it to the place the place she said she was going to seek medical consideration.

Authorities did not notice they have been missing till several hours later.

Her car, a 2013 Ford Taurus patrol automotive, was first spotted in a shopping mall car parking zone round 11 a.m. by somebody who was on a lunch break, Singleton said.

Around 3:30 p.m., officers on the jail had been concerned and tried to succeed in her, but her telephone 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 last few months, Singleton added.

"All precautions have been in place. The query we've for Director White is why she violated coverage," Singleton said.

Casey White is 6'9" tall is being thought-about armed and harmful. Vicki White "was armed with a 9 mm handgun, which means we're assuming he's armed," Singleton added.