Prison breaks are not unusual, but they normally involve inmates trying to get out, not in.
ABC News affiliate WJRT-TV reports 42-year-old Cody Bellamy has been charged in a puzzling breaking and entering case involving Michigan’s Standish Correctional Facility, which closed in 2009.
Police responding to an alarm at the former prison facility at around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10, allegedly found a glass door at the administration building smashed and spotted Bellamy walking out.
Investigators don’t seem to know exactly why Bellamy decided to break into the prison, but several items, believed to be stolen jewelry, as well as some cash, burglary tools and an unregistered firearm, were found in his car, per the outlet.
Bellamy reportedly told police that he just wanted to “walk around and take a look,” but investigators aren’t buying his story.
He got a look behind bars all right, just probably not in the way he intended. He was arraigned on four charges and remained in custody Monday.