Mistakenly released inmate surrenders in Port Angeles
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) - A Clallam County Jail inmate who was mistakenly released Tuesday is back behind bars.
The 35-year-old Port Angeles man, Lavan A. Lukes, turned himself in Thursday at the Clallam County Courthouse.
Sheriff Bill Benedict told the Peninsula Daily News he was not considered dangerous.
Lukes was jailed last week in a domestic violence case arising from a child custody dispute. He was accidentally let out of jail in a paperwork mix-up after a court appearance.
The 35-year-old Port Angeles man, Lavan A. Lukes, turned himself in Thursday at the Clallam County Courthouse.
Sheriff Bill Benedict told the Peninsula Daily News he was not considered dangerous.
Lukes was jailed last week in a domestic violence case arising from a child custody dispute. He was accidentally let out of jail in a paperwork mix-up after a court appearance.
Glad he stepped up. Even more glad he didn't go shoot at some cops. Had enough of that happen!
Funny how someone is innocent until proven guilty yet some of you have damned him quilty. I'm not saying what ever he did was good or bad, for all we know he was trying to protect his children and his evil ex set him up, some women do that when they aren't getting their way you know. We just don't know.... But I do know he's an honest guy for turning himself in...
 @Me_echelle He's got plenty of court cases in Clallam county where he's listed as a defendant, so we can certainly infer that he's had previous problems with the law on numerous occasions. You can look him up here: http://dw.courts.wa.gov/?fa=home.namesearchTerms (just click accept, and then on the next page enter his name (last, first, middle initial). That doesn't necessarily make him guilty in the case he was involved in here, but it does make it more likely. Betting odds are not on the guy who had more than twenty court cases.
Give him a few days off his sentence for doing the right thing and turning himself in.
I bet he was dangerous to his wife and/or children. Good call turning himself in.
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I'd sure hate to see a guy "accidentally" released that WAS dangerous.
He was smart to turn himself in.
"Not considered dangerous"....so why was he behind bars when we are letting people who ARE considered dangerous out of prison due to overcrowding and budget cuts? Because DV is a crime blown WAY out of proportion in most cases and the laws surrounding it so draconian it's not even funny.
 @dg54321 You sound like a men's rights advocate. DV is wrong no matter who does the hitting. I've known both men and women who were assaulted by their spouse or BF/GF. If the one that is supposed to love you assaults you or berates and belittles you - you need to get away from them. Kids don't need to see that.
 @two loons Absolutely. DV IS wrong no matter who does it. But the courts and police don't see it that way. If DV was treated equally no matter the sex of the perp I wouldn't even have an issue. But it's not. Anybody who has seen the DV courts in action could tell you that.
 @dg54321 You seem to have a pattern of making comments that attempt to completely invalidate what women go through at the hands of men who are bigger, stronger, louder, and more powerful than they are. Your comments about "feminist controlled DV industry" and "far too often a guy gets arrested because the woman has a scratch on her and that's an instant arrest for the guy" make it sound like that's probably something you got arrested for. You sound like my ex-husband.
 @spacegoddess Lady, I don't know who you are and I don't care to know. But I do know that lots of women fake injuries or don't even bother to go that far and get good men arrested because they are vengeful and immoral. And the system enables and even encourages them to do it. Sorry if you went through some actual DV; it's a horrible thing. But the system needs to change to keep false accusations from being allowed to prevail over the truth, all in the name of "safety". When good men have their lives ruined in order to keep women "safe" (and anybody can tell you these laws don't keep anybody "safe"), that's not right. It's not moral, it's not justice, and it's not liberty. It's tyranny. It spits in the face of everything our courts are supposed to stand for; to uphold the Constitution and the rights therein. The right to due process, a fair trial, to face your accuser, and the right to be innocent until proven guilty. All these rights are usurped by the current DV industry in the name of "safety". I'm sure you've heard the quote from Benjamin Franklin on that subject. If all that sounds like your ex, he sounds like a pretty smart American patriot.
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"DV is a crime blown WAY out of proportion in most cases..."
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You are an idiot. Why don't you try volunteering at a DV shelter? I bet you wouldn't have the same opinion once you seen all the women, children and yes, some men that are affected by domestic violence situations.
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You should be ashamed of your comment.
 @Tattooed_Angel  @dg54321 I would, but they don't allow eeeeevil men like me to volunteer, sorry shug.Â
 @Tattooed_Angel I agree. I'm actually halfway convinced that dg54321 may be my ex-husband, since the comments he's been making over the last few weeks are the same style and content he would have written, and the username starts with his initials.
@dg54321 So beating your wife is a good thing? or smacking the crap out of children must make you feel like a man! Oh yeah I bet you also love dueling banjo's too.
 @wynooheeman  @dg54321 Nice strawman. When "disagreeing" is considered DV you gotta know the system is broken, unless you are brain damaged....