“Michael Cornelius Anderson was arrested in 1999 for armed robbery. He helped rob a Burger King manager. He was then sentenced to 13 years behind bars. He posted bail and waited to be taken to prison.

Except, he said, no one never came to bring him to jail. Thirteen years passed and Anderson joined a church, started a small business, got married, had children, and never left the St. Louis area.

He lived a quiet life, until a SWAT team came to his home last summer and arrested him.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Ryan Broderick / Buzzfeed:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/an-armed-robber-was-given-a-13-year-sentence-in-1999-except