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Originally Posted by Acey
Obviously there's more to it than that given the scale of the search at the location they found the truck, but I imagine they would not release the guy in a case of this magnitude unless they were 100% sure he was not involved or associated with those involved.
This case is bizarre.
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The other issue here could be that they didn't have sufficient evidence to charge the person of interest and there is a limit to how long you can hold someone in custody as well. If they don't have the evidence to press charges, they have to let them go because you can't just hold someone that you think might be guilty without something certain. At this point, if we are to go off the officer's words from last night, the person taken into custody had a truck that was similar to one they were looking for (without a license plate number) on a property that a tip was called in. That's not concrete evidence at this point of the person being guilty.
I'm sure if the person of interest is someone they feel strongly about, they won't be leaving the CPS sight. They'll be "free" but not free. They will release them while collecting more evidence and then arrest or take them back into custody if/when they have the information they need to press charges.