Mr. Foster had been arrested after the police in Reform, a small city in western Alabama, clocked him on radar driving 92 miles per hour in a 45-m.p.h. zone at about 11:10 p.m. on Dec. 3, the police mentioned.
After the police pursued Mr. Foster in his Jeep and positioned spike strips on the highway, he was charged with reckless endangerment, trying to elude and resisting arrest, the police mentioned. He was additionally cited for rushing, driving whereas suspended and driving on the mistaken facet of the highway, the police mentioned.
Mr. Foster’s dad and mom imagine he might have been experiencing a “manic episode” within the days main as much as, throughout and after his arrest, the household’s legal professionals mentioned. Mr. Foster had “a history of mental health challenges,” the legal professionals mentioned in a press release.
While Mr. Foster was being booked into the Pickens County Jail, he was “not cooperative in answering the jailer’s booking questions but there was no physical altercation during the booking process while Reform Police Department was present,” the division mentioned in a press release.
On Dec. 5, Mr. Foster’s household posted his bond, which included a situation, by decide’s order, that the police take him to a hospital in Birmingham for an evaluation, the police mentioned.
But when Mr. Foster’s household and the police arrived on the jail to take him to the hospital, the sheriff’s workplace declined to launch him, saying he had been rebooked on one other set of prices, the Reform Police Department mentioned.
According to the legal professionals for Mr. Foster’s household, that they had been informed that Mr. Foster had “been in an altercation with another inmate and was now under the jurisdiction of the sheriff’s office, which delayed his treatment.” The household was not allowed to go to Mr. Foster, the legal professionals mentioned.
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