LA Woman Busted Attempting to Break Husband from Prison

Transportation Security Officer Supervisor, Danielle Denise Jones's old man is serving two life sentences at Kern Valley State Prison.

August 23, 2008

LOS ANGELES CA NEWS -- FBI agents in Los Angeles arrested a woman on August 21, 2008, charged with attempting to free her husband from prison by using forged counterfeit documents with two federal judges fake signatures to authorize her man's release. Danielle Denise Jones, 27, of Los Angeles attempted to release Jason Earl Jones serving two life sentences after being convicted by a jury of first degree murder, attempted murder and shooting at an inhabited dwelling in California.

Moreover, Danielle Denise Jones, who is employed as a Supervisor Transportation Security Officer (formerly known as a "screener supervisor") with the Transportation Security Administration, was arrested at her residence. Danielle Denise Jones, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles with forging court seals and judges' signatures on court documents, in violation of Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 505. Jones had her initial appearance before a United States Magistrate in Los Angeles and was released on $50,000 bond. An arraignment date has been scheduled for September 15, 2008.

According to the criminal complaint, a federal district judge in Los Angeles reported during February of this year that documents ordering the immediate release from prison of Jason Earl Jones, a federal habeas corpus petitioner in state custody, had been forged. The counterfeit documents bearing the falsified signatures of two judges, the Honorable United States District Judge Gary Feess and the Honorable United States Magistrate Judge Marc. L. Goldman, were believed to have been mailed by an accomplice (Jones) from outside the prison.

The FBI initiated an investigation which included the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Department of Corrections and the TSA-OIG, and established that the prisoner's wife, Danielle Jones, mailed the documents to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Legal Processing Unit and the United States Marshals Service. The complaint also alleges that Jones was linked to the mailing of the documents through fingerprint analysis conducted at the FBI Laboratory.

According to the complaint, Danielle Jones also contacted Kern Valley State Prison and advised personnel there that she had received the copies of the purported release order from the courts. Additionally, the judges signatures were not authentic and the language and other details in the documents were incorrect and not legally sound.

Jason Earl Jones, the woman's husband, was denied relief by the court in September 2007 when Judge Feess signed a report denying his habeas petition, which was prepared by United States Magistrate Judge Goldman. If convicted, Jones faces a statutory maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Danielle Denise Jones presumed to be innocent until proven guilty.

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