Jail staff learned within 15 to 20 minutes that Randall was not an ICE agent when the real officer arrived, Williams County Sheriff Verlan Kvande said.
Randall arrived and told jail staff he was from ICE when he is not employed by the agency, and the staff released the inmate to him, court documents say.
Court papers say jail staff of the Williams County Correctional Center in Williston had told the inmate that ICE was coming to pick him up.
He was arrested last month for driving under suspension and held on a detainer for ICE, and has been taken to the Ward County Detention Center in Minot, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff is not taking disciplinary action against the jail staff, saying he's met with them and “I truly don't think there's anything else I can do on the disciplinary front that is going to make them feel any worse about this than they do on their own fruition.
