Canadian woman taunts police on social media after she's wrongly freed from jail
Freed from Fort Saskatchewan jail last month by what officials are calling faked release papers, 24-year-old Mackenzie Dawn Hardy is posting her way into 15 minutes of fame, taunting law enforcement on TikTok.
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'My name is Mackenzie, and I got a funny story to tell you guys, so the government f—ed up, and I'm an escaped inmate right now, they are not gonna catch me because I'm two, one step ahead of them…,' she posted.
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Hardy faces a number of charges, including possession of property over $5,000, possession of property under $5,000, impaired driving, flight from peace officer, two charges of operation while prohibited, two charges of fraudulent concealment, possession of controlled substance — meth, and two charges of failure to comply with a release order.
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Michelle Davio of the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) confirmed Hardy was released after the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre was presented with fraudulent documents indicating the charges against her had been stayed.
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'As soon as ACPS became aware, we responded by seeking a warrant for her arrest. The ACPS has also referred the alleged use of fraudulent documents to the RCMP for investigation,' Davio told Postmedia in an emailed statement.
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'The ACPS takes this matter very seriously and steps have been taken by all parties to ensure this cannot happen in the future,' Davio said.
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'I never escaped. The government f—ed up. There was no fraudulent release order,' she said.
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'The court signed my release, no fake paperwork, no tricks.'
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'The doctors gave him about a year to live, so yeah, when I got released, I felt like it was more than paperwork. It felt like a gift from God, like the timing was too perfect to be random,' she posted.
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