What-cha Got There? Part 2

On July 7, 2004, Bennie Dean Herring showed up at the local Coffee County Alabama Sheriff’s Department to get some personal belongings from one of his trucks that had been impounded. As Herring was leaving, the Coffee County Investigator arrived for work. He knew Herring, and thought that there might be an outstanding warrant for Herring’s arrest so he checked to see if any such warrant existed. There were no outstanding warrants for Herring inCoffee County. The Investigator checked with the sheriff’s department in neighboring Dale County to see if Dale County had any outstanding warrants for Herring. Dale County Sheriff’s Department informed the investigator that there was an outstanding warrant for Herring in Dale County for failure to appear on a felony charge. The investigator asked for a fax of the warrant to Coffee County. Anderson promptly left the sheriffs office with another Deputy Sheriff to pursue Herring. Well after he left the Dale County warrant clerk could find no warrant concerning because there was not, in fact, any outstanding warrant for Herring’s arrest; the court had recalled the warrant referenced in Morgan’s computer database five months earlier. It was too late.