Inmate Used Fake ID Card (Eddie Murphy photo (!)) to Escape.
(More "must read" weekend off topic stuff, courtesy of AP News (and -- me)).
July 14, 2001
Inmate Used Fake ID Card to Escape
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:06 a.m. ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hours after he was convicted of attempted murder, a man
walked out of jail by flashing a phony identification card bearing a picture of actor Eddie
Murphy, authorities said.
Kevin Jerome Pullum, 30, remained at large Friday after slipping out of the Los Angeles
County Men's Central Jail a week ago. Police said a jail informant told investigators that
Pullum made the card using a picture of Murphy's face that he clipped from a newspaper
or magazine ad for the movie ``Dr. Dolittle 2.''
Sheriff's Lt. Carl Deeley said Pullum acted as his own attorney and was allowed to wear
civilian clothing to court on July 6. Although he was reissued his jail uniform after the
verdict, authorities failed to collect the civilian clothes, which Pullum apparently wore
under the jail coverall during the bus ride back to jail.
Pullum eventually took off the jail outfit, revealing his civilian clothing, put on what
appeared to be a jail employee identification card and simply walked through security and
out of the jail, Deeley said.
Sheriff Lee Baca said the escape raises questions about privileges given to inmates who
represent themselves in court. Pullum had access to such things as copy machines,
typewriters, paper and folders because he was acting as his own attorney.
Pullum was convicted of attempted murder for shooting a man six times in May 1999.
Copyright 2001 The Associated Press |
