{"id":756400,"date":"2021-09-15T18:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T22:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=756400"},"modified":"2021-09-15T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T22:50:50","slug":"michigan-dem-snuck-handcuff-key-into-jail-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-dem-snuck-handcuff-key-into-jail-sheriff-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Dem Snuck Handcuff Key Into Jail, Sheriff Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-dem-snuck-handcuff-key-into-jail-sheriff-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=756400&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.211618257261\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Police arrested Rep. Jewell Jones on drunk driving charges in April<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-3.51.12-PM-736x470-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-3.51.12-PM-e1627329107836.png 736w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-3.51.12-PM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-3.51.12-PM-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-3.51.12-PM-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-3.51.12-PM-1536x980.png 1536w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-3.51.12-PM-1400x893.png 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tMichigan state representative Jewell Jones (D.) \/ WDIV-TV\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 September 15, 2021 6:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"62.596728307255\">\n<p>A Michigan Democratic state representative snuck a handcuff key into jail after police arrested him for violating his bond, according to a county sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Police discovered the key on Rep. Jewell Jones, whom a court released on bond in April after he was arrested on drunk driving charges, according to Livingston County sheriff Michael J. Murphy. The sheriff&#8217;s office says Jones has repeatedly violated his bond, which a judge revoked in a Tuesday hearing. The Democratic lawmaker now faces two additional felony charges\u2014attempting to escape police custody and smuggling a weapon into a jail.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Wednesday, Murphy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilx.com\/2021\/09\/15\/this-guy-is-real-piece-work-sheriff-says-rep-jewell-jones-snuck-handcuff-key-into-jail\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=snd&amp;utm_content=wilx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Jones is &#8220;an embarrassment to all elected officials&#8221; who &#8220;thinks somehow the laws do not apply to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old representative, who became the youngest person elected to the state legislature in 2016, was arrested on drunk driving charges in April. During the traffic stop, Jones resisted arrest, and law enforcement pepper-sprayed and tased the government official, according to a police report. The lawmaker also threatened to report the officers to Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to be good for you&#8221; and &#8220;I run y&#8217;all budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones&#8217;s arrest is only the latest controversy for the Michigan lawmaker. Earlier this year, Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/michigan-dem-spends-campaign-funds-at-strip-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spent<\/a> more than $200 in campaign funds at a strip club, according to a July financial disclosure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Police arrested Rep. Jewell Jones on drunk driving charges in April  Michigan state representative Jewell Jones (D.) \/ WDIV-TV  Cole Carnick \u2022 September &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}