Alabama authorities are looking for a corrections officer and inmate who never made it to courtroom

Missing 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 are not associated.

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

Vicki White coordinates all transports from the detention heart to court and subsequently knew the protocol, the sheriff added.

Singleton said that although Casey White was supposedly being transported for a mental well being analysis on the courthouse, they've since discovered that no such evaluation or other court listening to for him was scheduled for Friday.

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

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

"Whether she assisted him or not, we don't know, and we won't address that until we've got absolute proof that that is what happened. We're assuming at this level that she was taken towards her will, except we can absolutely prove otherwise," Singleton added.

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

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 after which go search medical consideration because she wasn't feeling properly.

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

Authorities did not notice they were missing till a number of hours later.

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

Around 3:30 p.m., officers on the jail were concerned and tried to achieve her, however her telephone saved 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 few months, Singleton added.

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

Casey White is 6'9" tall is being thought-about armed and harmful. Vicki White "was armed with a 9 mm handgun, which suggests we're assuming he is armed," Singleton added.