By Justin Fenton,
The Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE — Colleagues of Timothy Schloemer were shocked when they went to pick up the drunken-driving suspect this week from Central Booking after posting his bail — and were told he had been dead for more than two days.
Corrections officials blamed the communication failure over the apparent suicide on a confluence of events — they say Schloemer didn’t give accurate next-of-kin contact information when he was booked, the hospital didn’t notify them of his death, and the bail and intake records systems don’t always marry up.
But a spokesman for the corrections department said the system is not broken.
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