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CROWN POINT â A defense attorney said Tuesday he is considering filing a motion to bring the Lake County sheriff before the court to testify about why sheriff s police arrested his client against medical advice and disconnected medical equipment from the man before an arrest warrant was valid.
Darren Taylor, who failed to show up June 21 for his trial on charges he murdered a Gary woman and her teenage son, was being treated at Community Hospital for an undisclosed medical condition when sheriff s police arrested him, attorney Russell Brown said.
Taylor was held at the Lake County Jail until June 30, when Lake Criminal Court Judge Diane Boswell ordered him released back to house arrest.
CROWN POINT â The owner of a company retained by the Lake County commissioners to provide electronic monitoring of criminal defendants claims the sheriff is trying to destroy his business by repeatedly criticizing the company for not providing police with timely notification over escaped defendants.
Herbert Smith, of ICU Monitoring, said Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez is not a party to his contract with commissioners and has never met with him to discuss his protocol and procedures.
But the sheriff has repeatedly held up multiple escapes by defendants under the watch of Smith s firm as evidence the county needs to sever ties with the company.