ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Marshals arrested a man in New Mexico, months after he was mistakenly released from county jail by an employee's typo.
Marshals spokesman Ben Segotta say they arrested Matthew Joe Tuesday at his mother's home in Thoreau.
Segotta says marshals had been looking for Joe for a couple of weeks, and found him through a tip from a "confidential source."
A District Court judge in May ordered Joe to serve a year in the Metropolitan Detention Center — on stolen vehicle and other charges — but a jail employee entered the wrong year as Joe's booking date, leading the judge to believe he had already served his sentence.
The error resulted in Joe being mistakenly set free.