TAVARES,
Fla. — Authorities say an inmate at a central Florida jail used a
glitch in the facility’s phone system to bond himself out.

The
Lake County Sheriff’s Office says 32-year-old Larry Stone discovered the
glitch earlier this month. The phone system charges inmate accounts for
calls but refunds the money if the call doesn’t go through. But the
system was reimbursing inmates twice for incomplete calls.

Authorities
say Stone repeatedly made calls and hung up until he had more than
$1,250 – enough to bond out of jail. Stone had been arrested in April on
property-crime charges.

Stone was only free for a few hours
before he was re-arrested. Officials became suspicious when other
inmates tried copying the trick.

The software error has been fixed and accounts restored to their previous totals.