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He’s already out of jail.
After spending only a few hours in custody, the 22-year-old man suspected of a wrong-way driving incident in which he hit dozens of police trainees, Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez is back on the streets as of late Thursday evening.
He had been taken into custody only hours earlier – for the attempted murder of peace officers.
According to a Fox affiliate in Los Angeles, the suspect is thought to be the driver that plowed into 25 law enforcement recruits in Los Angeles County.
The report explained jail records “cite a California law that authorizes police to release someone from custody without first being arraigned if there are insufficient grounds to make a complaint. Therefore, investigators are not legally allowed to hold a suspect for more than 48 hours without presenting a case to the district attorney’s office.”
Sheriff Alex Villaneuva said the investigations left authorities thinking the crash was intentional.
