FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) - Authorities issued an arrest warrant Monday for a corrections official who they say helped an inmate arrested on a murder charge escape from an Alabama jail even as they searched for the pair.The inmate, Casey Cole White, 38, disappeared Friday after he left the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, on Friday morning with Vicky White, the facility's assistant director of corrections.
They have not been seen since.Vicky White told co-workers she was taking the inmate to the courthouse for a mental health evaluation.
But Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton later said no such evaluation was scheduled."Casey White, as you’ve heard me say over and over and over is an extremely dangerous person and we need to get him located and get him off the street," Singleton said Monday at a press conference.Authorities noted his large size.
He stands 6 feet, 9 inches (2.06 meters) tall and weighs about 260 pounds, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.U.S. Marshal Marty Keely said Casey White "will stand out" even if he is has changed his appearance.The 38-year-old White was already serving a prison sentence for attempted murder and burglary and was set to go to trial next month for the stabbing death of a a 58-year-old woman to death, a charge in which he would face the death penalty if convicted.