A California man is back in custody after walking out of an Arkansas jail thanks to the help of a Gmail account and his girlfriend.
ABC 7 News Los Angeles reports that Nicholas Lowe walked out of the Washington County, Arkansas jail as a free man but he wasn’t supposed to.
According to the report, Ventura County sheriff’s Sgt. Eric Buschow told reporters that Lowe’s girlfriend Maxine Feldstein forged a release document and sent it to authorities using a Gmail account.
“Between the paperwork and these conversations it was convincing enough that once they had this document – this forged, false document that she created – they let Nicholas Lowe go. I’m not sure exactly how things go in Arkansas, but this had to be a tough pill to swallow for them,” Buschow said.
In the email and over the phone, Feldstein reportedly said Ventura County was having issues with overcrowding and they would not be able to pick up the inmate for transport.
“Nowadays to use the justification that we’re not coming to pick up this person because of overcrowding, well that doesn’t sound too unusual. The unusual part was that we already made a commitment that we were going to come and get him,” Buschow said.
The couple now will now face multiple felony charges.
To watch the caper unfold, courtesy of ABC 7 News in Los Angeles, flip the page.