Johnnie Rodgers
Update, 6:30 p.m. Thursday: An Oakland County prisoner who was mistakenly released Wednesday was captured Thursday evening on Detroit's west side near Hubbell Avenue and Outer Drive, WDIV reports.
Shortly after 6 p.m., the Oakland County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook:
Love the U.S. Marshal Fugitive Team. Our deputy assigned to them spotted the individual and then the team closed in and took him into custody. Great job.
Original article, Thursday afternoon:
Mistakes like this get noticed.
State and federal authorities were hunting Thursday for a potentially dangerous felon who was mistakenly released Wednesday from the Oakland County Jail, Mike Martindale reports for The Detroit News.
Johnnie Rodgers, 25, aka Johnny Rodgers, was serving time in state prison for assault with intent to commit murder and armed robbery. But since Aug. 1, he had been in the Oakland County Jail for a court proceeding in another case involving a concealed weapons charge in a school zone in Oak Park, Martindale reported.
Rodgers was sentenced Wednesday Oakland County Circuit Court to time served and released.
He was supposed to be returned to the Department of Corrections to continue serving his other sentence. In 2015, he was sentenced to seven to 15 years in prison for assault with intent to murder and armed robbery in Wayne County.
The sheriff's department vowed to get to the bottom of the issue, calling it a human error.
