By Laurel Rosenhall
The Sacramento Bee
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three days of lockdown at Sacramento’s main jail ended Sunday afternoon, even though officials were unable to locate a potentially dangerous missing item.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Tim Curran would not say what the object was that triggered the unusually long lockdown. He said only that it was “an item that could be used as a weapon.”
The lockdown started Thursday night when a jail employee told supervisors he or she had misplaced the item, Curran said. Jail officials immediately put the facility on lockdown while they hunted for the missing object. During lockdown, inmates must stay in their cells — no visits, social programs or eating in communal areas.
By Sunday afternoon, Curran said, deputies still had not located the item.
“They were confident that all areas they’ve searched, the item was not in any of those areas,” Curran said. “And the lockdown cannot continue indefinitely.”
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