Officer resigns after inmate escapes

DEKALB COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) An officer has resigned after an inmate escaped from her handcuffs on Wednesday and eluded officials for about five hours.

A second officer has been placed on two weeks of unpaid leave. The names of the officers have not been released.

According to the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department, procedures for transporting inmates back and forth from court were not followed.

The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department said around 2:30 p.m. officers were taking multiple inmates from court to the jail. All of them were handcuffed and chained together. As they approached in the intake door, Shelby Riedel slipped off the handcuffs and ducked around a corner of the jail.

Police responded to a tip that she'd been picked up and taken to a motel in Fort Wayne, but by the time officers got there she was gone.

Around 7:30 p.m., officers caught up with Riedel in the 3400 block of Sherman Boulevard and took her back into custody.

Riedel was taken into custody on Feb. 8 by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department on charges of failure to appear in court and failure to appear for a probation violation hearing. Due to Wednesday's incident, she now also faces a felony charge of escape.

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