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Prince George's County leaders are looking for four handguns that disappeared from the jail's armory; it's a mystery that led to the firing of a top official.
ABC 7/NewsChannel 8 reporter, Emily Schmidt spoke with Alfred McMurray this afternoon. The fired department of corrections director says he served at the wish of the county, and learned Wednesday morning, the county no longer wanted his services.
Just outside the Prince George's County Jail, was a sign of potential trouble inside the jail--people were searching for four missing 9MM hand guns.
"If you can't account for your weapons, something is wrong," said Prince George's County Public Safety Director Vernon Herron. "I think leadership is the first thing that has to be changed."
That is why county leadership fired Department of Corrections Director Alfred McMurry Wednesday morning-- because of multiple safety violations on his watch.
"It's our job to take bad people off the streets and take guns off the streets [and] now we have four of our own weapons back in the hands of god knows who," said Herron.
The county's Public Safety Director says it's not the only security breach that's happened since McMurray, a 25 year veteran of the department, was sworn in last year .
"We can't have guns coming up missing, and we can't have handcuff keys smuggled into institutions and cell phones," added Herron. "I've been in the department 18 and a-half years, and have never seen anything like this before."
The correctional officer's union president says it's unheard of to have four missing guns, though, he says McMurray's firing should not be the only action taken. "I really don't think this is going to be a permanent solution for the problem that exists in the department of corrections," said Curtis Knowles, of the Prince George's Correctional Officers Association.
Corrections officials say they first noticed the guns missing Monday, as part of a monthly check. Officials don't believe the guns are in the hands of inmates, though at this point, there's no way to be certain.
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all you have to do is look at who is running the county for your answer.....
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