COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KMTV) — Council Bluffs officials are expressing outrage after employees from the Dodge County Sheriff's Office released an inmate in a parking lot on West Broadway without first alerting local authorities.

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Police Chief Matt Davis said Christopher Lard was dropped off near 35th Street and West Broadway while still wearing his neon green inmate jumpsuit. Police allege he immediately began creating a disturbance.

"I am absolutely disheartened and frankly disgusted that another law enforcement agency would handle an individual in this manner and drop them off in our community with absolutely no support or advanced coordination with local resources,"

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