Photos: (from left) Edward Call III and Joel Fuller
Two inmates in the Baxter County jail let their curiosity get the best of them, damaging their identification bracelets to check out what was inside.
They picked up new charges in the process.
Both incidents took place late last month. Thirty-two-year-old Edward Call III of Cotter and 33-year-old Joel Fuller of Mountain Home were found to have scratched the back of the bracelets where the electronic chip is located to the point the units would no longer work.
Call was reported to have told jail staff he “just wanted to see what was inside” of the bracelet.
The incident involving Call’s bracelet was reported at 9:20 a.m. June 29 and the one involving Fuller about an hour later.
The electronic identification bracelets are used at the jail to keep track of inmates, and to allow access to areas of the detention center complex.
Both inmates were supplied with new ID bracelets, and charged with obstructing government operations and impairing the operations of a vital public facility.
Call is jailed on drug charges and Fuller is facing charges related to allegations he choked a man with an electrical cord.
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