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

Missing 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 are not associated.

Authorities said Casey White was being held on capital homicide costs and two sworn deputies ought to have been with him always, together with throughout transportation to court docket.

Vicki White coordinates all transports from the detention middle to courtroom and therefore knew the protocol, the sheriff added.

Singleton stated that although Casey White was supposedly being transported for a mental well being analysis on the courthouse, they've since learned that no such evaluation or different court listening to for him was scheduled for Friday.

"Realizing the inmate, I feel she's in peril whatever the circumstances... He was in jail for capital homicide, and he had nothing to lose," Singleton said.

Authorities at the moment are all possibilities of what occurred, together with if the corrections officer helped Casey White escape.

"Whether or not she assisted him or not, we do not know, and we won't handle that until we've absolute proof that that is what happened. We're assuming at this point that she was taken against her will, until we will completely prove in any other case," Singleton added.

Authorities said they are still searching 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 informed the guard she was going to drop him off at the court and then go search medical attention as a result of she wasn't feeling effectively.

The sheriff mentioned Casey White was never dropped off at court and Vicki White did not make it to the place where she said she was going to hunt medical attention.

Authorities didn't understand they have been missing until several hours later.

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

Around 3:30 p.m., officers on the jail were involved and tried to succeed in her, however her cellphone saved 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 had been in place. The query we have now for Director White is why she violated policy," Singleton stated.

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 is armed," Singleton added.