Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – Authorities say an inmate at a Florida courthouse managed to get a jail deputy’s handcuff key four days after a murder suspect escaped from the same building.
The Sun Sentinel reported that the guard realized his key was missing in a courtroom Tuesday, just a day after Sheriff Scott Israel promised to tighten security at the Broward County Courthouse.
A sheriff’s office report said a deputy had placed the key in his shirt pocket while dealing with a prisoner in a wheelchair and soon noticed the key was missing. A search of inmates followed, and deputies retrieved the key from an 18-year-old inmate after another inmate told guards he had it.
