MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — A state prison inmate was set free Monday morning even though his parole hadn't been properly organized.
Michigan Department of Corrections officials soon realized their mistake in letting Alfonzo Buchanan leave the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon. So after he took a bus to Grand Rapids and went straight to the Kent County Parole Office, as he had been ordered to do, he was taken back into custody.
"This was probably the best-case scenario," MDOC spokesman Chris Gautz told 24 Hour News 8, adding that this type of mistake is "very rare."
Buchanan, 32, is serving time for a fraud conviction out of Kent County. Monday marked his earliest possible release date.
MDOC still isn't entirely certain how the mix-up happened, but it appears to have been set in motion when Buchanan was set to be paroled to the Ottawa County Jail.