Multnomah County Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell apologized Wednesday for the deputies who accidentally released a man accused of murder.

Ty Sage — accused of being an accomplice in a 2021 drug and gun deal that turned deadly — walked out of the downtown jail Monday after jailers misinterpreted a court order denying bail as saying the opposite.

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