Two inmates are mistakenly released from a New York jail

Two inmates from Rikers Island, an infamous New York jail, have been released by clerical errors in the same week, one of them suspected of an assassination attempt and the other accused of homicide.

The New York police are searching for the two prisoners, one of them identified as Nikim Meekins, 22, who was arrested on March 10 for two incidents, the most serious of which was a shooting in which there was no fatalities on November 3, 2020, for which a $ 300,000 bail had been issued.

According to local media, a court spokesman explained that he had to appear in court this Monday for that incident and for another case of reckless recklessness for opening fire on two people last August, although none were injured.

The source indicated that that same day he was granted a bond of one dollar for that second case, but the clerk of the court noted that he could also be released on the more serious charges of attempted murder.

After the error was reported, the judge issued an arrest warrant, and Meekins is being wanted by law enforcement.

“We will address the clerical error from a personnel and training point of view,” the spokesperson said.

“Although this was a serious mistake (…), the New York Criminal Court, in the past year, has carried out thousands of procedures with judges, administrative personnel and court officials who have maintained the system under certain circumstances. exhausting, “he added.

Meekins’ erroneous release comes a week after 26-year-old Christhopher Buggs was released on March 9 for a case for which he had entered prison despite the fact that he still had to be tried for murder in 2018 .

Buggs is accused of killing a man outside an establishment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Four prison officials have been suspended for this case.

​KACY

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