Officials Confess N.B.’s Escaped Prisoner Not Cuffed, Shackled

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The officials have confirmed that the duty officers had not either shackled or handcuffed New Brunswick prisoner when he escaped custody in Truro on Friday afternoon. During a news conference on Saturday afternoon, director of Sheriff Services with the provincial Justice Department, Fred Hildebrand, explained that “normally, in a transfer he would have the shackles and the handcuffs on all the time,” because “that’s just the routine. Officers are trained to do that and that’s what they do.”

However, it was confessed that the routine protocol was overlooked on Friday afternoon when 43-year-old Marc Joseph Pellerin was being transferred from one vehicle to another in the parking lot behind the Truro Justice Centre on Prince Street. Taking advantage of the favourable situation, Pellerin escaped on foot and was still on the lam late Saturday afternoon. Hildebrand alleged that the department will “have to investigate” why the four Sheriff Services officers did not follow protocol since “we consider it very serious. We have to investigate to get the facts before we can determine exactly what happened.”

Pellerin was being transferred from a jail in Shediac, N.B., to Dartmouth, when he ran off through the streets of Truro with the Sheriff Services officers in pursuit at around 5:45 p.m. on Friday. Truro Police Insp., Rob Hearn, mentioned in an update at 3 p.m. on Saturday that there is “nothing new to report regarding the escaped prisoner,” but “we’re actively looking for him,” and “we’re the lead agency and we fanned it out to all the departments in the province.”

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