Man uses phone glitch to bond out of Florida jail
TAVARES, FL
The Lake County Sheriff's Office says 32-year-old Larry Stone
discovered the glitch earlier this month. The phone system charges
inmate accounts for calls but refunds the money if the call doesn't
go through. But the system was reimbursing inmates twice for
incomplete calls.
Authorities say Stone repeatedly made calls and hung up until he
had more than $1,250 -- enough to bond out of jail. Stone had been
arrested in April on property-crime charges.
Stone was only free for a few hours before he was re-arrested.
Officials became suspicious when other inmates tried copying the
trick.
The software error has been fixed and accounts restored to their
previous totals.
