SAN ANTONIO — Bexar County authorities say a "staff error" led to a 26-year-old man being mistakenly released from a local detention center Saturday without a GPS monitor, despite that being part of his conditions of release.
Sunday, Sheriff Javier Salazar placed 26-year-old Terrik Andres McCoy back into custody after apprehending him at a residence on the east side.
While Deputies were at McCoy’s residence, 32-year-old Charles Elliott Franks, who was wanted on an unrelated misdemeanor warrant, was also placed into custody.
McCoy will be booked into the Adult Detention Center for a re-active Parole Warrant, pending the attachment of a GPS monitoring device, according to a BCSO release.
McCoy was initially placed behind bars at the Bexar County Jail in November on charges of evading arrest or detention.
Meanwhile, officials say the jail’s interim administrator has been suspended, presumably as a result of this incident. Avery Walker, a 30-year veteran with BCSO who “has worked in many sections throughout the Adult Detention Center,” was assigned to take his place while Sheriff Javier Salazar reviews applicants for a permanent administrator.
Officials added that BCSO is looking into this specific incident, as well as beginning a review on jail systems and practices.
In December, BCSO officials blamed the release of someone who should have remained behind bars on a clerical error. That incident also resulted in an internal investigation.
"We are doing as much as we humanly possibly can with the resources allocated to the Sheriff to make these changes to make sure that we don't make these mistakes," Assistant Chief Deputy Ronald Bennet said at the time.