HERNANDO, Miss. (WMC) – A DeSoto County inmate was about to be freed Thursday night until the man who came to bail them out was discovered to have active arrest warrants.
The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office says 40-year-old Keith Shaw allegedly fled the jail as he was being checked in as a visitor.
He was captured after a brief search involving sheriff’s deputies, drones, K-9 units, and police officers from Hernando and Southaven.
The sheriff’s office reports that it’s standard protocol to check visitors when they come to the jail, and that when Shaw was found to have active arrest warrants in their system, deputies were called…