Just before midnight last Oct. 11, John Blodgett’s police scanner crackled with an alert. Because John is never without his scanner, and because he rarely shuts it off, he rose from bed and got dressed.
This was an unusual, and startling, notification: An inmate had been discovered missing from his cell in the Jefferson County Detention Center in Boulder.
John hurried over to the Detention Center. Over the next couple hours he saw county deputies, Boulder police and Montana Highway Patrol officers searching for the inmate, later identified as Tory Gee, who had “compromised” his cell and slipped out a door on the south side of the building. John figured out what had happened, and at 2:44 a.m., he posted the story on our website.
