By Bob Walsh
The Hillsborough Regional Juvenile Detention Center near
Tampa, Florida is described as an 80 bed hardware secure detention
facility. That means (presumably) that they have an excellent physical
security system but not an armed perimeter. With a juvenile detention
system that is what I would expect.
A
few days ago Jahmir Moore, 15, disappeared from this facility. He had
been locked up on suspicion of murdering a 14-year old boy. Moore was
last seen on Thursday and was noticed to be missing on Thursday. He was
last positively accounted for at about 1030 a.m. on Thursday.
When
he missed count the authorities started checking surveillance footage.
Moore was spotted running west away from the detention center towards a
business area. It isn't real clear just yet how he defeated the
"hardware secure" perimeter, or maybe it is and they just are not
talking. Both an internal investigation and a police investigation of
the escape as a separate criminal act are under way. Moore may be
charged as an adult on both the homicide and the escape, though that has
not yet been decided on.
One
badly written news story says that Moore is now back in custody and was
out only 11 hours. That is the only story I have found that specified
he was back in custody.
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