Alabama authorities are searching for a corrections officer and inmate who by no means made it to courtroom

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, stated Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton. The inmate and the corrections officer should not associated.

Authorities mentioned Casey White was being held on capital murder charges and two sworn deputies ought to have been with him at all times, together with during transportation to court docket.

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

Singleton said that although Casey White was supposedly being transported for a psychological health evaluation at the courthouse, they have since discovered that no such evaluation or other courtroom listening to for him was scheduled for Friday.

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

Authorities are now looking at all possibilities of what occurred, including if the corrections officer helped Casey White escape.

"Whether or not she assisted him or not, we don't know, and we won't deal with that till now we have absolute proof that that's what occurred. We are assuming at this point that she was taken against her will, unless we will absolutely show in any other case," Singleton added.

Authorities said they are still searching and investigating any interplay between the corrections officer and Casey White, in addition to any cellphone calls he had acquired.

When Vicki White escorted Casey White out of the jail, she instructed the guard she was going to drop him off at the court docket and then go search medical consideration because she wasn't feeling well.

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

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

Her car, a 2013 Ford Taurus patrol car, was first noticed in a shopping center car parking zone around 11 a.m. by somebody who was on a lunch break, Singleton mentioned.

Round 3:30 p.m., officers on the jail were involved and tried to reach her, however her cellphone 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 had been in place. The question we've for Director White is why she violated policy," Singleton stated.

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.