Alabama authorities are trying to find a corrections officer and inmate who never made it to court

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, mentioned Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton. The inmate and the corrections officer usually are not associated.

Authorities mentioned Casey White was being held on capital homicide expenses and two sworn deputies should have been with him always, including during transportation to court.

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

Singleton said that although Casey White was supposedly being transported for a psychological health evaluation on the courthouse, they have since learned that no such evaluation or different court listening to for him was scheduled for Friday.

"Knowing the inmate, I think she's in danger regardless of the circumstances... He was in jail for capital homicide, and he had nothing to lose," Singleton mentioned.

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

"Whether she assisted him or not, we do not know, and we can't handle that until we have now absolute proof that that's what happened. We're assuming at this point that she was taken in opposition to her will, until we can absolutely show in any other case," Singleton added.

Authorities said they're still searching and investigating any interaction between the corrections officer and Casey White, as well as any telephone calls he had received.

When Vicki White escorted Casey White out of the jail, she advised the guard she was going to drop him off at the courtroom after which go search medical attention as a result of she wasn't feeling properly.

The sheriff mentioned Casey White was by no means dropped off at court and Vicki White didn't make it to the place where she said she was going to hunt medical attention.

Authorities didn't notice they were missing until a number of hours later.

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

Round 3:30 p.m., officers at the jail were 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 previous couple of months, Singleton added.

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

Casey White is 6'9" tall is being thought of armed and harmful. Vicki White "was armed with a 9 mm handgun, which implies we are assuming he is armed," Singleton added.