Bruce Berrier Fled After Being Allowed to Attend Brother’s Funeral: Police

A jail inmate fled after a choose let him attend his brother’s funeral, say authorities in DuPage County, Illinois. Bruce Berrier, 23, no-showed a 2 p.m. deadline on Tuesday to return to the native jail, officers stated in a Chicago Tribune report. He’s now charged with felony legal harm to authorities property.

Prosecutors opposed Bruce attending to go to the funeral for his brother Rocky Berrier, however DuPage County Decide Michael Reidy accepted it. With a GPS ankle monitor, Bruce Berrier was allowed to go to the Brust Funeral Residence within the village of Lombard, Arlington Cemetery within the metropolis of Elmhurst, and to a household lunch. Authorities let him out on Tuesday at 8 a.m., and he needed to return to the DuPage County Jail at 2 p.m., officers stated. However authorities declare the ankle monitor was reduce off at 1:27 p.m. Investigators stated they discovered it on the cemetery.

He was serving a 10-year sentence for gunrunning, having pleaded responsible in July 2021.

“It’s alleged that on September 28, 2020 via November 24, 2020, Berrier illegally bought 4 weapons, ammunition and magazines, together with one prolonged journal, to undercover officers on 4 separate events,” the DuPage County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace stated in December 2020 after his bond listening to. “It’s alleged that the gross sales occurred in Roselle and Hanover Park. On December 3, 2020, authorities executed a search warrant at Berrier’s residence. He was taken into custody right now.”

On the time, he was reportedly on parole, having served 2-and-a-half years behind bars for taking pictures two folks in an argument between him and his mates towards one other group. He was 16 years outdated. One of many pictures broke a sufferer’s leg, whereas one other sustained three pictures, damaging the vertebrae, bowel and kidney, in accordance with the Tribune.

Berrier’s legal professional argued that his shopper was appearing in self-defense from a knife-wielding crowd, firing a number of pictures to the bottom in response to a snowball, in accordance with The Every day Herald. Berrier advised a choose in 2018 that he didn’t need to lead a life taking him to jail. An area priest supported him.

[Booking photo via DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office]

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