Im scared: Mistakenly-released suspect speaks out, explains TikTok posts [Video]

For the first time, 24-year-old Mackenzie Dawn Hardy is sharing her side the story after being mistakenly released from an Edmonton-area jail with what police say was a fraudulent letter.

On Wednesday, Global News first reported an Alberta woman was released at the end of April from the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre (FSCC), which houses both inmates serving jail sentences of up to two years and those in remand awaiting judgment.

A fraudulent “stay letter” was allegedly submitted under the name of a fake Crown prosecutor and sent through a bogus “defence counsel,” according to a whistleblower Global News has agreed not to identify due to the risk of them losing their job.

On Saturday, Hardy spoke over Zoom with Global News to discuss the day she was released from prison.

“I was on the phone with my boyfriend, we were talking and all of a sudden I got told to pack my stuff (and that) I was …