IL- Clerk from the Sheriff’s department accidently faxed a note to local newspaper saying "Dismiss the case, he's a deputy's son."
A clerk from the St Clair County Sheriff’s Department in Belleville, Illinois has admitted she mistakenly faxed a request to cancel a speeding ticket issued to the son of a deputy sheriff to the local newspaper.
Joann Reed told the Belleville News-Democrat that she accidentally sent the fax from the St Clair County Sheriff’s Dept. to the newspaper with a signed handwritten note saying 'dismiss the case.'
Reed had intended to send the three-page message to a Centreville village lawyer but her request went astray and landed in the Belleville News-Democrat newsroom.
'The guy is the son of one of our deputies. Guilty. Period', Reed later told a News-Democrat reporter after being questioned about the fax.
She also insisted she had falsely suggested the 18-year-old ticketed motorist - Jonathan Yates was the son of a deputy sheriff and was in fact a college student she was trying to help out.
Reporters discovered that Yates - the son of Cerether White, a St. Clair County sheriff's deputy, was issued the $175 fine on August 18 for allegedly driving at 43mph in a 20 mph zone.
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