Gps
January 17, 2012
Covina parolee accused of removing GPS ankle bracelet
Police arrested a wanted parolee with convictions for home-invasion robbery and auto theft early Tuesday on suspicion of removing a GPS tracking device, officials said.
Francisco George Munoz, 30, of Covina was being held without bail at the Covina Police Department's jail following his 3 a.m. arrest at 7-Eleven on Rowland Street, just west of Barranca Street, according to Covina police and county booking records.
Covina police received word last week that Munoz had removed or tampered with a court-ordered GPS ankle bracelet, Covina police Lt. John Curley said. Police and state parole officials carried out a search for him with no success...
LINK - SGVTribune.com
January 13, 2012
Parolee arrested after removing ankle bracelet
A convicted sex offender who removed his ankle monitor and failed to report to his parole officer was arrested at a Santa Cruz motel Thursday night, Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said.
Kevin Allen, 45, was on parole for felony sexual battery, false imprisonment and corporal injury to a spouse. He was being monitored via ankle bracelet...
LINK - SantaCruzSentinel.com
December 10, 2011
DOC looking for a former parolee who has an extensive court history and failed to participate in GPS
A warrant was issued Wednesday for David Earl Windle, 40, who was sentenced to six years in prison in 2006 for assault with a deadly weapon. He was on parole but didn't participate in the required GPS monitoring, according to officials.
Windle also was convicted of rape in 1997 and has had several misdemeanor charges of failing to register as a sex offender, according to electronic court records.
He also plead guilty to battery in 2001...
LINK - CorrectionsOne.com
December 1, 2011
Orland man’s second bid for arrest successful with same ploy
A man police declined to arrest in October, even after he said he was on parole and removed his ankle bracelet in front of an officer, found his way behind bars with the same ploy on Tuesday.
Orland police said they encountered Orlando Robinson II, 28, behind the police station about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday...
LINK - ChicoER.com
September 13, 2011
CDCR to release thousands of female prisoners early
Drastically redefining incarceration in California, prison officials are about to start releasing thousands of female inmates who have children to serve the remainder of their sentences at home.
The move, which could affect nearly half the women held in state facilities, will help California meet a court-imposed deadline to make space in its chronically overcrowded prisons. The policy could be extended to male inmates in the near future, administrators said Monday.
Mothers who were convicted of non-serious, non-sexual crimes — and have two years or less remaining on their sentences — could start going home as early as next week, prisons spokeswoman Dana Toyama said. The women would be required to wear GPS-enabled ankle bracelets and report to parole officers...
LINK - LATimes.com
May 27, 2011
CDCR to privatize GPS tracking of parolees
In California, convicted sex offenders and some gang members are fitted with GPS tracking devices when they get out of prison on parole. But that's a lot of little blips on a screen for parole agents to keep track of- too many, argues the state.
So they're asking for a private company to take-over some of the work.
In yearly operations, California Department of Corrections officers have made dozens of arrests at the State Fair. That’s some place with lots of kids, and lots of trouble for some convicts to get into.
So how did they know the parolees were there? GPS monitoring devices, strapped to he convict's ankles...
LINK - Fox40.com
March 23, 2011
California sex offender caught in Skowhegan (Maine)
A California sex offender who allegedly jumped parole was arrested Monday after a foot chase with police through downtown Skowhegan.
Police say Jaime Michael Harrington, 29, was convicted in California of sex offenses against a girl under 16. He was sent to prison and later released on parole.
Harrington allegedly cut off his electronic foot bracelet and fled the state. He is listed on the California Sex Offender Registry as being in violation of registration requirements since Aug. 8, 2010...
LINK - OnlineSentinel.com
December 15, 2010
PSPD Issues Alert for Missing Parolee Who Cut off GPS
Police asked for help Wednesday in finding a parolee who had been wearing an ankle device to monitor his whereabouts.
Raymond Ramos has been missing since at least October, when the Riverside County SAFE Team discovered that he had removed his GPS device.
He is 5 feet 9 and 180 pounds, with short hair, and goes by the alias Ramon Ramos, police said.
If you know the whereabouts of Ramos, call the Palm Springs Police Department at (760) 323-8115 or your local police department. To make an anonymous tip, call (760) 341-STOP.
LINK - KPSPLocal2.com
September 3, 2010
Expert: Bracelets don’t act as a jail
A pair of scissors can make all the difference if you’re on parole or probation, stuck in an ankle bracelet and willing to risk the consequences.
Some parolees, including Siskiyou County resident Richard Leslie Taylor, removed their monitors and ran. Taylor removed the device Aug. 19 and has yet to be caught, according to the state corrections department.
Others, including Shasta County resident Daniel Edward Munger, chose to avoid the bracelet altogether. Munger was arrested Monday, the same day his arrest warrant for failing to participate in the monitoring program was issued...
LINK - Redding.com
July 15, 2010
More problems with GPS, sex offender parolees
A glitch in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's monitoring system falsely notified officials that sex offenders were entering the California State Fair.
Many sex offenders are not allowed in the fair; the department set up a red violation zone that around Cal Expo that will alert them whenever one on parole wearing a GPS-monitoring device enters the fairgrounds.
The monitoring system worked perfectly Tuesday when KCRA 3 put it to the test.
Then, on the fair's opening day, parole agents received alerts that more than one sex offender was inside...
LINK - KCRA.com
July 12, 2010
Rock-throwing parolee cuts off gps
A wanted parolee allegedly tossed a rock at a tipster's car, breaking the vehicle's window as the driver was about to tell deputies about the suspect.
Early Saturday morning, a Rancho Tehama man was helping Tehama County sheriff's deputies search for Alex Max Sanchez, 34.
When the tipster, who wasn't identified by deputies, stopped at an intersection to meet with a deputy at Pebble Beach and Rancho Tehama roads, Sanchez threw a rock at his car, breaking the passenger-side window, deputies said this morning...
LINK - Redding.com
June 30, 2010
GPS Failing to Follow Sex Offenders
This story remains more than heartbreaking, especially when we heard from the families of both Chelsea King and Amber Dubois at the sentencing of their admitted killer John Albert Gardner. At one point Chelsea's father even said, “I am not alone in my frustration with a justice system that 10 years ago identified this coward (John Gardner) as a serious and violent threat to young girls and failed to imprison him and monitor him for the rest of his life.”
Right now in California, more than 7,000 paroled sex offenders are wearing GPS trackers to monitor their movements and in the last four months alone, 31 thousand alerts sent out by these devices were reportedly not properly followed up on. Something that upset Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher...
LINK - FoxNews.com
June 2, 2010
Inspector General Slams CDCR Parolee GPS monitoring procedures
The state Inspector General is again criticizing corrections officials for lapses in how they monitor parolees through GPS, saying in a report issued today that parole agents did not properly supervise John Gardner before he killed two teenage girls in Southern California.
Proper supervision may have prevented the crimes for which Gardner is now serving a life sentence, the Inspector General's report found...
Read the full Inspector General's report at www.oig.ca.gov.
Original story (above) reported at: SacBee.com
